Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, only two days before Brezhnev's arrival in Bonn, a West German company signed an agreement with the Soviet Union that cleared the way for the largest East-West trade contract ever concluded: the construction of a $10 billion pipeline to deliver Siberian natural gas to Western Europe. The U.S. had tried, but to no avail, to convince the West Germans that becoming dependent on the Soviets for fuel would make the country too vulnerable to political pressures...
...elephant seal. In response to TIME'S question about the ability of animals to recover from a small population base, I noted the history of the northern elephant seal, which has grown from a population of about 20 to one of about 40,000, but not in captivity. Siberian tigers, Mongolian wild horses, Père David's deer and European bison are examples of animals that were originally found in small numbers and are now populous in zoos...
...normally stoic citizens of the Soviet Union may be facing a long winter of food shortages. Estimates of the size of this year's harvest in the U.S.S.R. are falling almost as fast as the temperature on the Siberian tundra. Less than a month ago, American experts predicted 180 million metric tons of grain, which would be 5% less than last year's production and 24% lower than 1978's record harvest...
...already has eyes for another female prisoner. This is too much for Katerina, who pushes the other woman off a bridge into a swiftly moving stream and then leaps in herself. Lady Macbeth ends with a desolate chorus of convicts bemoaning their fate as they trudge wearily into Siberian oblivion-an effect that in its peculiarly Russian desolation recalls the Kromy forest scene at the end of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov...
...were on hand to greet their Soviet comrades at Okecie Airport, the handshakes must have felt fraternal indeed. For Warsaw's Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, who led the delegation, and who has shown a tenacious commitment to reform, Suslov's arrival may have seemed more like a Siberian blizzard...