Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have cleared a twelve-mile border strip along the Sinkiang border as a security measure, and pumped in Chinese immigrants to farm -and defend - the territory. Russia is trying to do the same thing in Siberia, hoping to get a long-term economic pact with Japan to develop the Siberian economy...
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...
Left unsettled as De Gaulle flew back to Paris at week's end (replete with a small Siberian bear in his baggage) was the key question of a Soviet withdrawal of forces from East Germany. De Gaulle clearly would like to see such a first step toward the dissolution of that obstacle to a European settlement, and the U.S. has indicated that it would consider a quid pro quo pullback of its own. The matter may very well be on the agenda of the Warsaw Pact powers when they meet this week in the Rumanian capital of Bucharest...
...Show program is still alliterative: "Extraordinary Equine Exhibition! Res-inback Riders and Revelers! Trilogy of Teeterboard Terrors!" And the circus' biggest acts are still those with negative benefits: a Siberian tiger named King rides around on a horse named Tiger and does NOT eat him; a Mexican acrobat does a triple somersault-the one that gave Burt Lancaster all that trouble in Trapeze-and does NOT fall: Helena Rassy's pastel-dyed pigeons are released from the balcony and flutter down to her and NOT into the crowd...
...Participation by the Japanese in development of the western Siberian oilfields, which are expected to become Russia's biggest producers. The Russians will need 4,338 miles of 48-in. pipe to run from the fields to the port of Nakhodka, plus 500 miles of 28-in. pipe for branch lines, as well as other equipment. They would pay the Japanese for the pipe and equipment in oil, beginning in about 1975, when production would presumably rise above local needs...