Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toward the end of the century. The Arabs are training their own people to do the job. The Russians' immediate interest in Middle East oil is to satisfy their own future fuel needs-and those of their Eastern European satellites-which cannot be economically filled from remote Siberian fields...
...Centrifuges, flew X-15's. There must have been reasons for these exploits, but the true motivation was to make heroes of these astronauts. There was Gus, Deke, Wally, and Scott. They were good men, and true, not the old wrecks the Russians sent into space from Dark Siberian plains. Neither were they for that matter the bible punching sissies who reached the moon last summer. These Seven drank and loved. Here was excitement. America needed heroes and made them in her own image. Certainly people talked of international cooperation, but we wanted to beat the Russians...
...right to examine the credentials of each of the KGB officers. He also studied the arrest warrant, and when he detected an incorrect date for his birthday, he said jokingly: "You see, you have the wrong man." Amalric learned that half of the agents were from the Siberian border city of Sverdlovsk, where a copy of his book, which was circulating in typed form via the Samizdat underground press, had been confiscated by the authorities...
When Giselle returned to Moscow, Amalric and his captors were still in his room, where the agents seized another long list of items. Among them were five unpublished plays that figured in his 1965 conviction as a "parasite"; he spent 21 years in Siberian exile then. The Moscow KGB agents refused to let him accept the food Giselle had bought. Said Amalric to his wife: "Goodbye, and don't worry, little woman. Stay well...
...will feel renewed pressure to build "thin" anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems; in the U.S., the Nixon Administration's campaign for the $12.4 billion Safeguard ABM program appeared to gain support in Congress last week. But the pressure on the Soviets will be all the greater because many Siberian bases and towns lie within easy range of Chinese IRBMs. In the Vienna talks, the Soviets are almost certain to insist that any treaty should include provisions allowing both nations to build ABM shields, and permitting either party to renege on certain agreements later if the Chinese military threat should...