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...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...
...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...
...Siberian Forest. If the U.S. Pavilion is subtly propagandistic, the Soviet (two to three hours' wait) is strictly hard-sell. The visitor is immediately overwhelmed by an Orwellian film of Lenin haranguing a crowd. Since Russia is pushing the centennial of Lenin's birth (TIME, April 13), there is an inevitable glass case filled with Lenin artifacts, including his Communist Party ID card. Perhaps the most startling experience for a visitor is to step off an escalator and find himself in a remarkable, lifelike Siberian forest, complete with cool breezes and chirping birds. The Soviet space exhibit, emphasizing...
...Thailand along the Indonesian Archipelago to as far south as Australia. If drilling proves them right, the results can not only spur development of the whole region, but will also surely alter the balance of global oil politics. Southeast Asia, along with Alaska's North Slope and the Siberian field that the Soviets revealed last month, could give world oil users great new sources of supply...
Yugoslav Challenge. According to another wisecrack, first, second and third prizes will be awarded for the best jokes about the Lenin anniversary: 15, ten and five years' exile respectively in Shushen-skoye, the Siberian town to which Lenin was exiled under the Czar. Also making the rounds is the story of an elderly citizen who writes to his party committee for a new apartment, then to the Central Committee and finally to Lenin himself, but receives no answer. He goes to the Central Committee and asks to see Lenin, but is told by the Party Secretary that Lenin died...