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...purchases of both nations from each other, now running at a minuscule $200 million annually, are expected to triple over the next three years, with the U.S. coming out considerably ahead on the balance of payments. Commerce Secretary Peter G. Peterson, who signed the agreement with Soviet Trade Minister Nikolai S. Patolichev, said that the Russians are expected shortly to order $60 million worth of earth-moving equipment for excavation of their huge new Kama River truck factory. At week's end, as if to signify that such business deals were already becoming routine, the Soviets signed...
...atomic physics, for example, Moscow's competing Lebedev and Kurchatov Institutes may well be ahead of Western research centers in the race to control thermonuclear fusion, the same energy process that powers the sun. Under Nobel Laureate Nikolai Basov, Lebedev scientists are using high-energy laser beams in an effort to produce a plasma, or ionized gas, of sufficiently high temperature and density to sustain a fusion reaction. Kurchatov researchers are using powerful doughnut-shaped machines, acronymically named Tokamaks, to obtain the same results with intense magnetic fields. Academician Lev Artsimovich, head of the Kurchatov work, doubts that anyone...
Ever since Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny visited Hanoi and U. S. presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger traveled to Peking in June, Western diplomats have speculated that Russia and China will urge North Vietnam to make a peace settlement...
...same time, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny journeyed to Hanoi for talks with North Vietnamese leaders. But what lent extraordinary interest to those diplomatic travels was the news of another mission: only four days after he had returned from a visit to Tokyo, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger left Washington for Peking...
...note of restrained cordiality was struck from the moment Nixon landed Monday at the Moscow airport. On hand to greet him were President Nikolai Podgorny, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Brezhnev was absent, but that was not unusual or slighting. The route to Moscow had been cleaned up for the President's visit. U.S. flags waved alongside Soviet banners on lampposts. In the soft glow of twilight, the glittering domes of the Kremlin churches seemed cheerful and inviting as the limousines crossed the Moscow River and swept into the fastness of the Kremlin...