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...jointly develop (at a cost of $150 million) the natural gas reserves of Sakhalin. To thaw the permafrost in relations dating back to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-06, Tokyo and Moscow are planning an exchange of airline flights over Siberia and a possible joint effort in Siberian economic development. Still, the frost is deep, and "technical details" crop up continually...
...would open Alaska to development just as the transcontinental railroad opened the West in 1869. Who knows? If the détente with Russia flourishes, the line-if it is built -might some day be extended across the Bering Strait, connect the Western U.S. rail system with the Trans-Siberian Railway, and be known, of course, as the Vladivostok, Nome & Santa...
...have cleared a twelve-mile border strip along the Sinkiang border as a security measure, and pumped in Chinese immigrants to farm -and defend - the territory. Russia is trying to do the same thing in Siberia, hoping to get a long-term economic pact with Japan to develop the Siberian economy...
Audiences watch and listen agog as the big, blond, open-shirted Siberian submits to the passion of his verse and rolls a voice like an organ through the packed halls...
SIBERIA: A DAY IN IRKUTSK (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).*NBC News focuses on the sprawling Siberian city, 2,600 miles from Moscow, a once frontier trade center which now boasts close to 500,000 inhabitants and a building boom. Concentrating on the people who have helped build the city, NBC interviews a woman surgeon and a Trans-Siberian Railroad engineer...