Siberian Fires Raging
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Associated Press
MOSCOW — Fires raging for more than a month in southeastern Siberia have destroyed thousands of acres of forest and continue to burn in a drought-stricken area east of Lake Baikal, a Soviet newspaper reported Tuesday. Farm Life newspaper said the fires began April 1 after a long, dry period in the Trans-Baikal region of Chita, about 200 miles north of Mongolia and China.
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