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...Chernenko's personality and political experience are also at the heart of the uncertainty about what he represents. He is a Russian who was raised in Siberia, and his background marks him as both peasant born and a man of the people. He spent more than 40 years laboring patiently in the party apparatus. For 34 of those years, he was associated with Leonid Brezhnev, acting as a friend, confidant and aide-de-camp. It was Chernenko who turned up Brezhnev's hearing aid and, on occasion, ordered the translators to speak louder so the old man could hear...
Titled Kindergarten, it recounts his child hood experiences during World War II, when he and thousands of other Moscow residents were evacuated to Siberia to escape advancing German troops. Although film portrayals of the U.S.S.R.'s World War II ordeal are encouraged by Soviet authorities, Yevtushenko's movie may run into difficulties nonetheless. One of two nude scenes, in which a newlywed wife is shown naked to the waist, drew gasps from the audience. Nudity is rare in Soviet films, usually being restricted by the censors. Kindergarten also includes a reverential portrayal of an aging rabbi that could...
...Soviet Union, the building of a 2,759-mile natural gas pipeline from Siberia to Western Europe has become a test of technological prowess and a national crusade. Over the past two years, the Soviets have raced to finish the $ 18 billion project on schedule and prove that U.S. economic sanctions aimed at delaying the pipeline have had no impact. Construction crews, toiling feverishly in the harsh Siberian wilderness, were given 10% higher wages than similar laborers receive in Soviet cities and offered bonuses of up to six months' pay for fast work...
...even as the Soviets were proclaiming their success, reports were swirling in Moscow that the undertaking had suffered a setback. A fire at a compressor station in Urengoi, Siberia, was said to have damaged essential equipment. The Kremlin confirmed last week that the blaze had broken out on Dec. 15 in a pile of boxes lying on the floor of the station. The flames destroyed important electronic monitoring devices and control panels, but no one was injured. The Soviets denied that the accident would keep the pipeline from completion in June. Said Vasili Dinkov. Soviet Minister of the Gas Industry...
Even the trickle of Soviet gas shipments to France this month may be a sham. Western energy specialists believe that the gas is traveling through a previously existing network of Soviet pipes rather than the new line from Siberia. Said an official in the French gas industry: "We don't know if the gas is Siberian or not, and we've got no way of telling." Some Western businessmen in Moscow doubt that the pipeline will be completed before...