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...into the red in 1971. But it has a long-term debt of close to $1 billion and thus has had some difficulty raising capital for Hammer's favorite overseas projects, which include drilling in the North Sea and a multibillion-dollar plan to import natural gas from Siberia. Baird's banking experience may be just what Occidental needs to reduce its debt and to gain, as he puts it, "a better-balanced capital structure...
...were solidified to Moscow's satisfaction, the Moslems' claims to self-determination took a backseat of the goal of strengthening the country's unity. After the Moslem areas were occupied by the Nazis in the Second World War, as many as a million Moslems were transported to settlements in Siberia as the Soviets adopted the ultimate imperialist weapon, genocide...
...June 30,1908, a giant fireball exploded in Siberia's remote Tunguska region, leveling trees for more than 20 miles around and causing atmospheric shock waves that were detected round the world. At the time, scientists thought that a giant meteorite had crashed into the earth. Later, when they failed to find a major crater or clearly identifiable meteorite fragments at the site, they began to question their earlier theory...
Unlike Nobel Prizewinner Alexander Solzhenitsyn, however, Amalrik is virtually unknown in his own country. His two books have been published only in the West-in violation of Soviet law. In the first, Involuntary Journey to Siberia, he gives a spare, vivid account of his exile to a Siberian collective farm for "parasitism" (failure to hold a regular job). Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? is a political treatise that foretells Russia's ultimate disintegration, and predicted in 1969 that the U.S. and China would reach a rapprochement...
Salyut was not the only source of problems for Russian rocketeers. Four weeks ago a giant Proton booster - the largest Soviet rocket - apparently failed during liftoff, sending its payload crashing into the Pacific off eastern Siberia. U.S. space observers believe that the cargo, destined for the moon, included an improved version of the highly successful Soviet lunar rover...