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During a 1954 visit to Peking, Khrushchev and his colleagues proposed that Chinese workers be sent to Siberia to help exploit its vast timber resources...
...nearly a decade, Japan and the Soviet Union have been mired in desultory negotiations over joint development of the vast natural resources of Siberia. The Japanese need the oil, natural gas, coal and timber that the Russians offer and have plenty of hard currency to invest in extracting it. The Soviets need the cash, and Russian leaders from the time of the czars have been eager to develop that frozen wilderness. But the two parties have differed on just about every detail, from interest rates to what should be developed first...
...that description might indicate, Japan's future in Siberia is still so uncertain that many diplomats wonder if last week's deal will come off at all. As recently as this month an agreement looked more unlikely than ever. The Japanese have stipulated that two interested U.S. firms, Occidental Petroleum and El Paso Natural Gas, be brought into the gas exploration venture because of their expertise in that activity, and that the U.S. put up an equal amount of money for the venture. The Soviets are amenable, but Congress lately has been opposed to granting the Export-Import...
...pilgrims home from Saipan, Guam and Tinian; another 400 will soon be leaving on a cruise ship for the burning sands of Iwo Jima, where no fewer than 20,000 Imperial troops died in combat. Later this year, other battleground pilgrims will visit Mindanao, Leyte, New Guinea and even Siberia...
Everybody is born a king, Oscar Wilde once remarked, but most people die in exile. In Wilde's mood of royal bitterness, Ellen Douglas has written a savage little novel about life's next-to-last disenfranchisement-that deportation to Siberia known...