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TIME, Feb. 18, mentions the apostolic administrator for the Russian dioceses of Mo-hilev and Minsk, His Excellency Bishop Boleslav Sloskans, as "either dead or in Siberia...
...Bones of the largest mastodon ever foudn in Siberia...
...monsignori are in Eastern Europe. In Russia, Rumania, Albania and the Baltic countries (now part of the Soviet Union), the hierarchy has been virtually wiped out. In the other Iron Curtain countries, it has been badly crippled. Russian Bishop Boleslav Sloskans, imprisoned since 1927, is either dead or in Siberia. The Lithuanian bishop of Kaisedorys and the Estonian apostolic administrator have been sent to Siberia. One Hungarian bishop, the Vatican announced, "has probably died" in a concentration camp. In Yugoslavia, Titoist but still Communist, one bishop is in jail, two (including Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac) are under house arrest...
Authorities believe that the forerunners of the American Indian came to this continent from Siberia by a passage across the Bering Sea. In 1948, a Peabody Museum expedition discovered that no migrations had taken place across the Aleutian Islands passageway...
Along a great arc sweeping from the equator in mid-Atlantic to Irkutsk in central Siberia, the sun will be in total eclipse on Feb. 25. Last week an expedition of scientists from the U.S. Air Force, the Naval Research Laboratories, the National Geographic Society and the Universities of Denver and Colorado set out for way stations on the eclipse's 70-mile-wide path. When the moon's shadow climbs northeastward over half the world, the experts will be waiting with telescope, camera and electronic recording equipment. By their observations they hope: 1) to correct their maps...