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...Bukhara, with beautiful mosques and colorful bazaars. Northeast of 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...
...begins a routine scan of the earth's surface. Beyond the green necklace of the Antilles, Hurricane Clytemnestra begins to collapse, shredded by a continuous aerial barrage of silver-iodide seeds from U.S. planes. The weatherman flashes Moscow that intense hail is due to fall on Irkutsk by early afternoon, and the Russians quickly send up rockets laden with chemicals, melting the hail before it lifts the wheat fields. As for more mundane matters, vacationers on Cape Cod will have a clammy morning-but only until 10:40 a.m. And the working girls in Chicago had better...
SIBERIA: A DAY IN IRKUTSK (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).*NBC News focuses on the sprawling Siberian city, 2,600 miles from Moscow, a once frontier trade center which now boasts close to 500,000 inhabitants and a building boom. Concentrating on the people who have helped build the city, NBC interviews a woman surgeon and a Trans-Siberian Railroad engineer...
...attachés (three American, one British) to ride the Trans-Siberian Railway all the way from Moscow to Khabarovsk, headquarters of the Soviet Far East military command. It was the first time in two years that any foreigners had been allowed on the 2,300-mile stretch from Irkutsk to Khabarovsk, which runs straight through what is presumed to be Russia's new belt of atomic plants and missile sites. Presumably, by taking careful note of such clues as power lines, spur tracks and freight-car types, a trained military observer could get an excellent idea of precisely...
Last week came an angry gripe in Literaturnaya Gazeta from a Siberian housewife who demanded that Leningrad stop sending its prostitutes 2,735 miles to Irkutsk and surrounding villages. The housewife was especially upset about a young lady named Tosca, whose fame was so great that it preceded her arrival in Siberia. "Won't this piece of goods find admirers even in a new place?" asked the matron. "She probably will. I know that the wives of a few Bodaibo miners, for example, asked the 'authorities to stop sending the likes of Tosca to Bodaibo. This desire...