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...most serious allegation concerned the Soviet construction of a large radar facility in Siberia. Under the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, the two nations agreed that radar capable of spotting incoming enemy warheads could be situated only on the periphery of each country and "oriented outward." The Siberian radar is located 500 miles inland and pointed over the Siberian land mass. The Soviet claim that the installation is a satellite-tracking station does not satisfy U.S. arms experts. For their part, however, the Soviets could question the legality of U.S. radar facilities in Georgia and Texas...
...novel opens, the Soviets are about to buy an American supercomputer, a so-called Craig 1, from France, ostensibly to help them forecast the weather on the steppes of Siberia. In fact, the Soviets intend to use the machine, one of the world's most powerful, to get into Western data banks that contain American military and technological secrets. Rather than objecting to the supercomputer sale, U.S. intelligence officials decide to capitalize on it. They dispatch an M.I.T. scientist to Paris to plant a "softbomb," or programmed booby trap, in the computer's meteorologic software...
...heavy rain. In Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, a remarkable overflow of 3,000 people stood in the streets outside the Baptist church. There were no loudspeakers this time, and police dispersed two-thirds of the devout. This week Graham moves on to Novosibirsk, the major city in Siberia, and completes the tour in Moscow...
There are those Houses which will of course fill up in the lottery's first round, and there are those branded as places of exile. And the others serve as the buffers between the River and Siberia--they're a way to hedge one's bets...
Chernenko: Well, it looks like you guys have really screwed this one up. What are you going to do about it, or did I hear you say you like Siberia in the summertime...