Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much about Chernenko suggested that he had stepped into history straight from the Siberian village where he was born on Sept. 24,1911, only seven months and 18 days after Ronald Reagan. His open, almost cherubic face, with frosted brows that slant upward and icy blue eyes set in high Asiatic cheekbones, seemed unpretentious. As the new Soviet leader went through his paces last week, his dark suit appeared to hang awkwardly from his broad, slightly hunched shoulders. He seemed almost relieved after a Kremlin reception to enjoy a few private moments of male camaraderie with his elderly Politburo comrades...
...never forgets." Stored in his capacious memory are countless files, names, incidents, favors given and favors received. In the view of many Soviet analysts, he is far from a fool. As Alexander Rahr, a Soviet-born expert at Radio Liberty in Munich, puts it, "He is a quiet Siberian, a man who can be quite cunning, a man who knows what power is." But he is also said to have a common touch in dealing with subordinates. As a Soviet journalist who has seen him on numerous occasions observed, "He treats unimportant people like human beings...
...aircraft carrier. Soviet nuclear-powered submarines are thought to give off so much radiation that Soviet sailors morbidly joke that members of the northern fleet are easily identifiable be cause they glow in the dark. During the past eight months, one nuclear sub foundered in deep water off the Siberian pen insula of Kamchatka and a second was disabled off the U.S. East Coast when the craft's propeller became entangled in an undersea surveillance cable...
...sudden reprieve from certain death understandably pushed Dostoevsky toward mysticism. "Life is a gift," he wrote several hours after being spared, "life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness." Life in a Siberian prison compound dampened such enthusiasm. His fellow inmates were chiefly peasants, the very people he had hoped to emancipate from the crushing system that enslaved them, but they turned out to be murderous, thieving, brawling brutes who detested him. Dostoevsky notes: "Their hatred for the gentry knew no bounds, and therefore they received us, the gentlemen, with hostility and malicious joy in our troubles...
...France this month may be a sham. Western energy specialists believe that the gas is traveling through a previously existing network of Soviet pipes rather than the new line from Siberia. Said an official in the French gas industry: "We don't know if the gas is Siberian or not, and we've got no way of telling." Some Western businessmen in Moscow doubt that the pipeline will be completed before...