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Soviet scientists have not yet taught shrimps to whistle, but Radio Moscow last week reported an even more fantastic feat. Geologists in northern Siberia, it recounted breathlessly, dug up a pair of salamanders that had been frozen for 5,000 years, thawed them out and fed them berries and mosquitoes from their hands. One of the prehistoric newts (tritons) scampered happily about for three weeks before it died; it was then bottled and sent to a Moscow University laboratory. Its comrade lived for several months in a museum...
...Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. An ex-political prisoner, who spent eight years in Siberia, has soared to fame in Russia by writing a roughhewn novel about life in one of Stalin's concentration camps...
Perpetually Cold. Solzhenitsyn writes authoritatively of a Siberian labor camp because he spent eight years in one. Twice decorated in World War II. he nevertheless was arrested in 1945 for criticizing Stalin, served his full sentence, and then was forced to stay in exile in Siberia. Only after Khrushchev's anti-Stalin speech was he allowed to return; he now teaches school in a town southeast of Moscow...
...thought that eight inspections would be the minimum, having whittled that down from its original twelve. While the U.S. has been demanding that at least a dozen unmanned seismic detection stations, or "black boxes," be installed on Soviet soil, Khrushchev said that three would do-one each in Siberia's Altai Mountains, the Virgin Lands of Soviet Central Asia and the Soviet Far East. "We believe," he concluded, "that now the road to agreement is straight and clear...
...burgeoning oil and gas production from new fields in the Caucasus and Urals, Russia has undertaken a 38,000-mile pipeline network, with two main legs: one westward from Kuibyshev near the Urals to power the factories of Russia's European satellites, the other thousands of miles through Siberia and on to the Pacific. Trouble is, Russia cannot produce all of the big-bore (up to 40 in.) pipe itself; so it has turned to capitalist manufacturers, mostly in West Germany and Italy, for 40% of the 2,500,000 tons of pipe it needs for the project...