Word: siberian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dispute with China over territory along the Manchurian border. During the first rounds of Tanaka's negotiations in Moscow, it seemed that a dialogue of the deaf was in the making. While Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev expanded at length on specific opportunities for Japanese participation in Siberian development, Tanaka tenaciously stuck to the island issue...
Clearly, such an object would have caused far more cataclysmic damage than the Siberian explosion. But in recent years several scientists have proposed the existence of tiny black holes even smaller than a speck of dust. Some of these may have been formed in the so-called "big bang"-the great explosion that cosmologists believe marked the birth of the universe some 10 to 15 billion years ago. Others could be fragments from collisions between larger black holes...
Jackson and Ryan calculate that if such an object (which would have the mass of a moderate-sized asteroid) intercepted the earth's path at a velocity of about 25,000 m.p.h., it would have set off a shock wave quite similar to the one from the Siberian blast. They re port in Nature that the black hole's passage through the atmosphere would have left a deep blue trail of ionized particles like the streak seen by witnesses near the 1908 blast. Finally, the energy released by the black hole (comparable to that of a ten-megaton...
...thin, geyser-like column of water as it flew into space. Jackson and Ryan suggest that their theory may be supported by a search of oceanographic records and ships' logs for any reports of strange doings in the North Atlantic on the day of the 1908 Siberian explosion...
...have proved to be impressively shrewd traders, eager and able to squeeze the last kopeck out of any transaction with capitalists. That kind of canny negotiating should give pause to the hundreds of U.S. executives who are rushing to do business with Moscow, especially those who want to exploit Siberian natural gas. In that deal, unlike the grain sales, the Soviets will be the sellers in a sellers' market...