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...boldest single weather-control project, Project Stormfury, the Navy is now trying to prove that hurricanes can be steered or wiped out by seeding their centers with silver-iodide crystals. Russian antiaircraft cannons regularly bark over the mountains of Georgia and the hail-blasted steppes of Siberia, pumping tons of silver iodide into the sky at intervals of ten to 15 minutes until storms subside. In France, Meteorologist Henri Dessens has created le Météotron, a superstove that covers 3,200 square meters and has 100 burners that can generate 700,000 kilowatts of power to send...
...SIBERIA: A DAY IN IRKUTSK (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).*NBC News focuses on the sprawling Siberian city, 2,600 miles from Moscow, a once frontier trade center which now boasts close to 500,000 inhabitants and a building boom. Concentrating on the people who have helped build the city, NBC interviews a woman surgeon and a Trans-Siberian Railroad engineer...
...cured Communist, born 56 years ago in the Chechen region. He rose steadily through the party apparatus until a certain independence of thought -he opposed Stalin's plan to establish kolkhozes, or collective farms, in the non-Russian areas-nominated him for purging. After five years in Siberia, where he was sent without trial, he joined the abortive 1943 Chechen revolt against Communist rule and later escaped into Germany. Since then, as a founding member of Munich's Institute for the Study of the U.S.S.R. and a professor of political science at the U.S. Army Intelligence Center...
...Gaulle has a mystical control over the atmosphere, and last week's performance in Russia confirmed it-climatically and politically. From the moment his tricolored, twin-flagged (French and Soviet) Caravelle touched down at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport to his week's end sortie into Siberia, De Gaulle trailed sparks and portents like a comet. Europe and the world scrutinized each move, each speech, each communique and each symbol for an indication of De Gaulle's intentions...
With that, De Gaulle took off on a 6,200-mile swing through Russia that was less political than it was crowd pleasing. In Novosibirsk-"the Chicago of Siberia"-fully half of the city's 1,000,000 residents turned out to greet the French leader. Accompanied by Podgorny and Zorin, De Gaulle inspected power plants and electrical-equipment factories, then stalked through Akademgorodok, a seven-year-old academic city of 37,000, which gave him the opportunity to strike again on the anvil of Franco-Russian cultural rapprochement. "How can one forget," he said, "that the great academy...