Word: baikal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians have generally kept some 20 army divisions stationed in the Trans-Baikal and Far Eastern military regions. These have recently been beefed up to full strength, and some reports suggest that new divisions have been added-bringing total estimated armed strength up to as many as 1,500,000 men. Most of these are concentrated along the Trans-Siberian Railway east of Irkutsk. In Mongolia, theoretically an independent republic, Soviet authorities have stationed up to 200,000 new troops under a defense treaty signed in 1966. Fighter planes, which can land almost anywhere on the flat Mongolian plateau...
...retaliation, the Americans toyed with the notion of sneaking into the sable grounds of Russia's Baikal region and doing a bit of poaching. They even went so far as to pick a leader for the expedition: a much-decorated Army lieutenant colonel named Carl Piampiano. The harebrained scheme never materialized, but Piampiano was by then intrigued with the mink business and bought himself a ranch in Zion...
...Japanese hope will become a Siberian thaw. Russia is already proposing that Japan might like to lend another $140 million to build a pipeline from Siberia's Ohka oilfields to the sea and perhaps take part in a $1.2 billion program to develop copper mines near Lake Baikal. Japan, which has few raw materials itself and is forced to import oil from the Middle East and copper from Africa, is understandably interested in these and other ventures...
...four enlisted men-Richard D. Bailey, 19, Jacksonville, Fla.; Michael A. Lindner, 19, Mount Pocono, Pa.; Craig W. Anderson, 20, San Jose, Calif.; and John Barilla, 20, Catonsville, Md.-were slipped out of Japan aboard the Soviet liner Baikal Nov. 11, two days before their desertion was trumpeted in a 16-mm. filmed interview...
...them lies AlmaAta, a 20-year-old planned city that is the capital of Kazakhstan. The Siberian scientific center of Novosibirsk was opened to foreigners last year and tourists who wish to go farther out can go on to Irkutsk (8 hours from Moscow). There they can visit Lake Baikal, the world's deepest. One taste of its pure waters, and one will thirst for them for life. Or they can ask to see salt mines, which the Russians will gladly show them-they are all automated...