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...night," Shaw recalls. "The temperature inside was about 20 below, and there were thick icicles inside the door. Finally a crewman hauled aboard a hose from the engine-warmup truck and began blasting hot air straight into the cabin. It was rough, but it worked-a bit like Siberia itself." Our story was written by Contributing Editor Marguerite Johnson, who in 1970 saw the region from a somewhat different perspective: a coach window on a Trans-Siberian railroad train during a week-long trip across Siberia...
...mere prospect of a wintertime visit to Siberia, where some of the world's lowest temperatures have been recorded, is enough to give anyone cold feet. TIME's Moscow bureau chief John Shaw, however, eagerly anticipated such a trip to report this week's story on Siberia. Since arriving in Moscow a year ago, Shaw had been planning an excursion to the vast region between the Urals and the Pacific, but not until last November did he find the time-and get the permission of Russian authorities-for the trip. Shaw spent two weeks touring Siberia...
...Otto Preminger. playing the camp commandant, was always striding about in high black boots, smoking luxuriously and sneering at his desperate charges. Indeed, there is such a character here, a Citizen Major ("I'm not going to fool around with you. If you want to go back to Siberia..."). In the old Hollywood versions, women appeared only in flashbacks. In The First Circle they are present as warders whose proximity causes some inmates to writhe on their bunks of an evening and groan, "Give me a woman...
...consultations eventually are supposed to hatch three main deals: 1) the fertilizer transaction; 2) development by the Soviets, with the help of U.S. technology and capital, of natural gas fields around Yakutsk in Siberia; and 3) construction by Americans of a hotel and trade center in Moscow. All three projects face high hurdles. The hotel-trade center deal is rather vague, but Hammer hopes to put together a U.S. consortium that would arrange all design, construction and financing and turn over completed buildings to the Soviets. The fertilizer transaction, by his estimate, would require an investment of $100 million...
...major priority will be the development of Siberia as a military and economic bulwark against Chinese expansion. To this end, Russia has asked Japan for $1.5 billion to help develop Siberia's vast oil and gas resources, which would give the Japanese both a financial and a political stake in preserving Russian hegemony in the area. But Soviet inflexibility on the island issue will hardly inspire the Japanese to rush into the oil and gas business...