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...Soviet Union. On the other side, Soviet mobile rockets going into Czechoslovakia and East Germany, aimed at U.S. allies in Europe. Tomorrow, perhaps, Soviet depressed-trajectory ballistic missiles on submarines off America's Atlantic shores, capable of hitting Washington as rapidly as the Pershing IIs could strike, say, Minsk: twelve to 15 minutes after firing...
...soft and irresolute NATO alliance. When their mighty armored thrusts into West Germany fail-just barely-to overwhelm NATO, the Soviets gamble that a nuclear attack will throw the West into panic, and they vaporize Birmingham, England. Twenty-five minutes later the Allies detonate four ICBMS over Minsk. The ghastly three-week war is ended, and the dammed-up anger of its own abused citizens sweeps the Soviet government and the Communist Party into history's celebrated dustbin...
...entire nature of U.S.-Soviet relations and even over Nixon's fitness to govern. Even so, after meetings near Yalta in the Crimea, where Brezhnev had taken our whole party for a few days, it was decided that I would not accompany Nixon on a visit to Minsk but would return to Moscow to see whether progress could be made...
Upon graduation most students are placed in jobs in regions where it is hard for the government to maintain a skilled labor force. Jobs in the major cities--Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, and Minsk--are sought after because of these cities' vastly superior material situation and cultural life...
...Soviet oil production has been growing more slowly in recent years, and some Western experts predict that the country might become a net importer of oil by the mid-1980s. The pipeline will alleviate the situation by sending gas to the Soviet Union's more populated regions like Minsk...