Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still another potential hitch is the fact that the Soviets last month abandoned their plan for an east-Siberian oil and gas pipeline and instead plan a railroad that would run roughly parallel to the Chinese border some 250 to 300 miles inside Soviet territory. Among other things, it would carry Siberian oil to ports for export to Japan. The Chinese are probably worried by the idea of a railroad, which also could be used to carry troops and arms. Japanese relations with China have been improving recently, and Premier Kakuei Tanaka is unlikely to do anything to jeopardize that...
...long way from the well-fed, well-clothed, well-read intellectual West to the life which Alexander Solzhenitsyn has lived, suffered, described and made live in his works. It is a long way from the city bookstore to the taiga of the Siberian north or the dim, stinking cells packed with starved and wretched men; from the quiet classrooms to the stark realities of a hunted existence in a totalitarian state. "Oh, freedom-loving 'leftist' thinkers of the West!" Solzhenitsyn writes in "The Gulag Archipelago." "Oh, leftist Laborites! Oh, progressive American, German and French students! For you, all this counts...
...could have a much more serious economic impact. This year the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. has financed $250 million in American shipments to the Soviet Union. Cutting off the flow of credit would crimp industrial exports to the Russians and upset plans for the joint exploitation of Siberian gas and other Soviet resources...
...path of Halley's comet precluded collision, the possibility that a comet could strike the earth is not entirely farfetched. The earth bears the scars of at least two impacts that some scientists ascribe to comets: at the site of the Great Tunguska catastrophe, which leveled the Siberian landscape for more than 20 miles around in 1908, and in the geological formation known as the Witwatersrand gold field in South Africa. The possibility of a hit also fascinated Jules Verne. In his 1877 story Hector Servadac, the earth is smashed to bits by a comet, and the protagonists drift...
...December 1972, in the midst of a severe Siberian winter which decimated the Soviet winter wheat crop, the USSR spoke to USDA officials about grain trade. The Soviets wanted a one-year deal with long-term credit. The U.S. responded with an offer of a long-term deal with no credit...