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This century has already seen a major meteorite blast. In 1908, either an asteroid or a comet exploded about five miles above the remote Stony Tunguska River region of Siberia, igniting and flattening trees over hundreds of square miles. From descriptions of the blast and photographs of the damage, scientists have estimated that the object was at least 200 ft. across and caused a twelve-megaton explosion...
...privation, squalor, illogic and naked fear of everyday existence for Soviet citizens. Jackson, TIME's Moscow bureau chief, hangs his narrative on the premise that Soviet soldiers who had fallen into Nazi hands thereby became "tainted" in the eyes of their government and, after the war, faced exile to Siberia or worse. He further suggests that U.S. authorities offered them new identities, enabling the soldiers to go home, but not resume their old lives, if they would spy for the West. The offers went to devoted family men who would not imperil their kin. This poignant tale of one such...
Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, 56, cut his teeth in the Siberian town of Sverdlovsk and gained a reputation as a forceful administrator. Boris Yeltsin, 55, who replaced Grishin as Moscow party boss, also came from Siberia. When Yeltsin heard grumbling about poor bus service in the capital, he reportedly rode the overcrowded vehicles himself, then ordered the head of the city transport department to do the same...
That comets do occasionally strike the earth seems certain. Some scientists think a tiny chunk of a comet, exploding in the atmosphere above Siberia in 1908, caused a tremendous blast and fireball in the Tunguska region, felling trees in a 200-sq.-mi. area and knocking the nearest residents (40 miles away) off their feet...
...Soviets have also indicated that they might now accept a written limit on throw weight. In addition, they offered last week to stop construction on a giant phased-array radar in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. This facility has been cited by Reagan's defense team as a major Soviet arms-control violation because such installations are permitted only along borders under the terms of the 1972 ABM treaty. In return for halting work on the nearly completed radar, the Soviets demanded that the U.S. stop upgrading two advance-warning radar complexes in England and Greenland, neither of which falls under the provisions...