RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS SEIZED NEAR SMOLENSK.

Smolensk police have reportedly arrested eight people in the nearby town of Safonovo on the suspicion that they intended to smuggle two capsules of radioactive cesium-137 out of Russia. The capsules, found in a barn in Safonovo, were said by the police to have been stolen from a local business and to have been destined for an unspecified European country. Reports did not say how much of the radioactive material was involved. (AP, Itar-Tass, April 25)

No Breakthrough in NATO-Russia Talks.