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...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...
These Soviet moves make ominous sense when seen on a map: the Korea Strait, at the southern end of the Sea of Japan, is a key link between the Siberian home ports of the Soviet Pacific fleet at Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk in the north and the naval base at Cam Ranh Bay in Viet Nam to the south. That American-built facility has fulfilled the Soviets' long-held, often frustrated desire for a warm-water naval base halfway between Vladivostok and the politically volatile, economically vital Persian Gulf-Indian Ocean region, where the superpowers are now circling each other...
...Siberian gas to warm Europe causes some shivers...
Last week the Yamal gas reserves were the subject of intense negotiations in Paris, Brussels and The Hague, and of high-level worries in Washington. The Soviet Union has proposed building a natural-gas pipeline from the remote Siberian peninsula, 3,000 miles across the heart of Central Russia to Western Europe. Its partners in the project are to be the major Continental countries. They will lend the Soviets $10 billion to $15 billion to cover the entire construction cost of the project, and provide their best technology and equipment in return for a supply of 40 billion cubic meters...
Noting that one of the segments of "Sganarelle" is written entirely in a gibberish he called "Neo-Siberian." Brustein said. "The play communicates itself easily anywhere." Brustein expects to play a role in "Sganarelle...