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...time, many saw it as a desperate, probably futile gamble. Seven Pentecostals from Siberia raced past startled Soviet guards and into the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Their aim: to win permission to leave a country that, they said, persecuted members of their religious minority (estimated size: at least 150,000). The fugitives were given a single 12-ft.-by-20-ft. room in the embassy basement and later took over the barbershop next door. Last week, after nearly five years in their refuge, the Siberian Seven, as they have become known, finally moved a little closer to freedom when Soviet...
...nuclear attack with more than enough megatonnage to performance promised retaliatory destruction. And of course, the President would always have the option of launching our missiles before the Soviet missiles had even landed. The little black box is never more than seconds from the President, and missiles on the Siberia-to-Omaha run take thirty...
...problem began last April, when U.S. officials asked the Canadians for permission to test unarmed cruise missiles at the Primrose Lake test range in northeastern Alberta. The Pentagon argued that the region's vast stretches of snow-covered wasteland made it similar to Siberia and thus a suitable proving ground for the missile's sophisticated terrain-reading equipment. Trudeau tentatively agreed to the proposal. But the news was leaked to a Canadian reporter in Washington, and it ended up on the front page of newspapers across Canada. In the uproar that followed, Trudeau hastily denied any binding commitment...
Just how all-pervasive the KGB presence can be was illustrated last November, when a dozen Pentecostalists set out from Chernogorsk, Siberia, to visit relatives living in the basement of the U.S. embassy in Moscow. On their arrival at Yaroslavl station, they were greeted by a KGB agent who claimed to work
...sensible and promising peace plan for the Middle East, but neither side has yet accepted it even as a basis for negotiations. Relations with European allies, a high Reagan priority, were badly damaged by the Administration's ill-considered sanctions against the Soviet natural-gas pipeline from Siberia to Western Europe. They are improving now that the sanctions have been lifted, but face an acid test next year, when several NATO countries are scheduled to station U.S.-made intermediate-range nuclear missiles on their soil, over the furious objections of domestic antinuclear movements...