Word: baikal
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...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...
...Target the Red Guards overlooked: their atomic-weapon development facili ties and the work of foreign devils like Newton, Einstein, Faraday, Mendeleyev, Leibnitz, Gauss, Huygens, Kirchhoff. There, indeed, is a monument to the West that any sane man would like to see at the bottom of Lake Baikal. If they do a really thorough job long enough, they will be walking to work and working at night by the light of blazing pine knots, even in the Celestial City...
...century. Land far to the east of Mongolia was settled by such Russians as Explorer Erofei Pavlovich Khabarov, whose band of Cossacks braved wolf-infested forests and Chinese warriors in their conquest 300 years ago. With the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689, Russia's position east of Lake Baikal was established, and by 1860, it had won rights to the Amur Valley and Vladivostok...