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...Bulgarian refugees, Dimitr Alexiev and Michael Azmanoff, both 28, boarded a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 in Sacramento. They demanded that $800,000 be delivered to them at San Francisco International airport and ordered the pilot to point a course for Siberia. The plane taxied to the isolated tip of Runway 19R, where it was finally stormed by FBI agents disguised as crewmen. The agents gunned down both hijackers, but during the Shootout, one passenger, E.H. Stanley Carter, 66, of Montreal, was also killed and two others were wounded...
...systems and just about everything else that is needed to run a successful modernized country. The problem is that the Russians have few finished goods they can sell to the West to finance such gigantic purchases. Hence they must barter raw materials, notably the rich natural-gas deposits of Siberia, and line up huge long-term credits...
...party leaders are aware that their country is falling ever farther behind the West in technology. The Soviet leaders realize that they need Western technology and long-term credit to help overcome their country's backwardness and to open up the rich petroleum and other mineral deposits in Siberia. Russia has an even more basic reason for turning westward: food. Because of frost damage in the Ukraine and other areas, the U.S.S.R. expects an exceptionally poor harvest of winter wheat this year. It needs the pending wheat sales from the U.S., the largest since the cold war began...
They decided to suffocate me. The plan is to either drive me out of society or out of the country, throw me in a ditch or drive me to Siberia, or have me dissolve in an "alien...
...million. With some 40% of Pechiney Ugine Kuhlmann's sales generated abroad, French officials see the new giant as an answer to "the American Challenge." Already the combine, among many other ventures, is negotiating with the Soviets to help design and build a $500 million aluminum complex in Siberia, which will have an output equal to nearly half Pechiney's worldwide capacity...