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MOSCOW--A family of musicians from Siberia who hijacked an Aeroflot jet hid their weapons inside their instruments, then opened fire and set off a bomb when an army assault team stormed the grounded plane, Soviet media said yesterday...
...most of the time making a career in the military. He was educated in the Soviet Union, embraced Communism for a time, and at one point signed a denunciation calling his father an "enemy of the working class." Later, Soviet authorities made - Chiang a virtual hostage, banishing him to Siberia and the Urals. There he married a young Russian woman named Faina...
...away. The Soviet Union is still a one-party dictatorship, the economy is ramshackle, the bureaucracy is a menace, and what about human rights, Mr. General Secretary? Nonetheless, Soviet writers, artists and journalists have begun issuing the sort of critiques that used to earn a one-way ticket to Siberia. So has the boss. Take, for instance, this blast at Gosplon, the state planning committee: "They do what they want, and the situation they like best is . . . when everybody...
Vladimir Slepak gained the nickname "father of the refuseniks" as one of the earliest and most dogged defenders of Soviet Jews who had been refused permission to leave the country. Since 1970, except for five years of forced exile in Siberia, the television engineer served in Moscow as a key source -- sometimes the only source -- of information and advocacy on behalf of fellow Jews who wanted to emigrate. Last week, 17 years after Slepak and his wife Maria first applied for an exit visa, the two celebrated his 60th birthday in Jerusalem after a joyous arrival ceremony attended...
...cosmonauts may have left their frustrated U.S. counterparts behind for now, but Kremlin military brass are hardly breathing any easier. American military space technology still far surpasses that of the Soviets. U.S. KH-11 satellites have sent back such detailed photographs of the Soviets' Krasnoyarsk radar site in Siberia that even the recent inspection by U.S. Congressmen added little to what was known. U.S. monitoring systems follow Soviet naval ships around the world and may eventually be able to spot Soviet submarines underwater. U.S. satellites can track mobile Soviet ICBMs, and would be instrumental in verifying Moscow's compliance with...