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...Militarily, they are cutting back on most types of bombers and building up their nuclear-missile punch. They have a sizable number of intermediate-range missiles on hand, are beginning to have a potential in ICBMs, but probably cannot reach the U.S. heartland from present Siberian bases...
Moscow recently announced a discovery of diamond deposits in north central Siberia large enough to boost its output thirteenfold by 1965. Though the Siberian deposits seem to be gem stones, and the Communists do not want their women to think that diamonds are a girl's best friend, De Beers feared that the Russians might move into the world market and knock prices down. Quality industrial diamonds is what the Soviets want. Hence the deal: gems for De Beers, which can market them at best prices in the luxury markets of the West, and an assured supply of industrial...
...sometime archaeologist, philosopher, biochemist and author (he claims 69 books). By his own admission, he speaks 14½ languages, the 50% lingo being English. His cosmetics, says he grandly, are drawn from history, e.g., General Potemkin's letters taught him the oils used by Catherine the Great (Siberian fir needles, hay, geranium and lilac), and Anne Marie's exercises are supposedly based on a calisthenics drill devised by Leonardo da Vinci. "It is not a lesser masterpiece than his Mona Lisa...
...John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). The author of Inside Russia Today turns his TV eye to Siberia, shows on film the operation of the trans-Siberian railway, the diamond mines at Yakutia, the emerging wealth and power of the region east of the Urals...
...Reason Why. Having planted the notion of free and peaceful interchange in at least a few Siberian minds, Nixon, tired but still eager, flew back to Moscow to deliver his farewell speech on radio and TV. While Nixon .was busy writing hi's script, Nikita Khrushchev, just back himself from a trip to the Ukraine, showed up unexpectedly at Moscow Airport to inspect the two Boeing 707 jets waiting to take the Nixon party on to Warsaw. Though dissatisfied with the highball proffered him-"You Americans spoil whisky. There's more ice than whisky in this"-Khrushchev...