Word: siberians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...twelve women and 14 children clad in tattered sheepskin coats and babushkas were a forlorn lot with a forlorn tale. They came from a sect of Protestant Pentecostal evangelists in the Siberian town of Chernogorsk, near the Mongolian border 2,100 miles to the east. Of late, local authorities there had taken away several children of the sect, and threatened to imprison the adult faithful. With the vague notion that a foreign embassy might help them, the Siberians went by train to Moscow. Now they wanted to travel to "Israel"-probably meaning the Israel of the Old Testament...
Another wave of turbulence in the Siberian industrial center of Kemerovo was reported last week by the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya. More than 47,000 construction workers walked off the job during the first six months of the year because of low wages, poor housing and food shortages. Economic planning in the region was a joke. Equipment for a steel mill delivered in 1954 was still waiting to be installed. A fruit cannery was finished before it dawned on its builders that there was no local fruit to can. All in all, $660 million went down the drain...
This time the U.S. was ready for the Russian screams before they came. The pilot of a U-2 reconnaissance plane, returning from a mission, reported that his plane had strayed over the fortified Russian island of Sakhalin, off the Siberian coast and reaching down to within 26 miles of Japan. Word was swiftly passed to Washington-and, with the warning in hand, it was barely 3½ hours after the inevitable Russian protest note arrived that the U.S. reply was written, approved by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and President Kennedy, and delivered to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin...
...going for power, the other for poetry, Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, 42, and Poet Robert Frost, 88, shared a plane to Moscow to see what the Russians are up to in both fields. Udall was soon flying off to Siberian sites at Bratsk, Irkutsk and Kuibyshev, on the Volga River, to mosey around hydroelectric plants, high dams, and extra-high-voltage transmission lines; Frost, escorted by Russian Literary Editor Aleksandr Tvardovsky, 52, and Angry Young Poet Evgeny Evtushenlco (TIME cover, April 13, 1962), began searching for common mind-meeting ground. The search led him far afield...
...though a trickling tap had suddenly been turned full on, Soviet bloc aid is pouring into Cuba. Since July 26, some 20 Soviet ships have embarked from Black Sea, Baltic and Siberian ports; by Aug. 8 at least eight vessels had docked at Cuban ports to unload military goods and 5,000 "technicians...