Word: kamchatka
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When the Giliaks of Sakhalin island and the Koryaks of Kamchatka rubbed the sleep out of their eyes one morning last week, they rubbed a second time and looked up in surprise: the rising sun was black. It was totally eclipsed by the moon. As eclipses go, this one had relatively few observers-at least of its totality. The path of complete blackout crossed the most sparsely inhabited wastes of Asia and North America, favoring only Canada's southeasternmost provinces before crossing the Atlantic to fizzle out at sunset near the Azores. Most big-city dwellers had to content...
...would house ten U.S. sailors. Few Russian ships have air conditioning. Thus vessels on duty in tropical waters are frequently rotated not so much for maintenance as to provide relief for "roasted crews." At true bitterly cold bases of the Northern and Pacific fleets in Murmansk, Vladivostok and the Kamchatka Peninsula, crews spend uncomfortable winters ashore in badly heated, uninsulated barracks...
...rare peek at the Kuriles, which Russia has guarded with xenophobic jealousy ever since the islands were seized as booty from Japan after World War II. A mist-shrouded necklet of 50 volcanic islets, the Kuriles are strung strategically from within seven miles of Hokkaido to seven miles from Kamchatka on the Siberian mainland. "The whole place looked half-abandoned," said Army Specialist Five Theodore Sokardo. "The runway was narrow and the field buildings were dingy and, wellere flashed to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson in Moscow, who took advantage of a similar treaty-signing ceremony to speak with Soviet Premier...
...recent weeks Izvestla has reported "reproaches that are constantly coming in" about chronic delays, consistently bad service, inadequate airport amenities and lack of transportation to and from airports. Some pilots grumped that they were always having to explain to angry passengers why a half-day flight from Volgograd to Kamchatka took three days. Complained another: "I have seen passengers trudge to the plane up to their knees in mud because there was no transport." There is a lack of up-to-date navigational and mechanical equipment, concluded Pilot First Class V. Chekunin, "and as long as it is not available...
...dull their physical aches and pains or to alleviate, like the nepenthe Homer describes, their mental ones. More treasured still have been the substances used to bring mortal flesh into the presence of the divine. Such was the mysterious soma, mentioned in a Sanskrit chronicle. Nomads on the Kamchatka Peninsula lofted themselves into the dazzling world of the gods with the mushroom Amanita muscaria, and discovered that the visions of one eater could be passed to as many as five others if each one drank the urine of the man before him. In South America, long before Columbus, witch doctors...