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Soviet ICBMs are tested from west to east. They are fired from launchers at Plesetsk near the White Sea and Tyuratam near the Aral Sea at targets in the north Pacific and on the Kamchatka peninsula in Siberia. In a war, however, the missiles would follow a very different trajectory, over the North Pole, and would therefore be subject to different geodetic, gravitational and meteorological forces, known as bias, from those that prevail on the test range. The result, say the critics, would be bias errors in the accuracy of warheads fired against...
When Concha's parents refused to allow the match on religious grounds, Rezanov returned to Russia, vowing: "I shall wring consent from my Tsar, the Pope, your father!" But on the homeward trek across Siberia, the nobleman died on the icy steppes, causing his disconsolate Concha to become "San Francisco's first...
...President's rhetoric, it may spring from the kaleidoscopic picture of world events that Allen and his aides produce every day. Terse paragraphs tell the story in words. Satellite pictures lay it out in stunning detail: tanks, planes, missiles, submarines, divisional cantonments carved out of wilderness areas in Siberia. It is a buildup of potential death that goes beyond all reason, and our cameras do not lie. (Once, the story goes, they even defined a Soviet sun worshiper with her bikini top down...
...when that city's harbor is closed by ice. A top South Korean official notes that this kind of co operation would have been "unthinkable only a few years ago and therefore at least symbolically worrisome." Symbolism aside, it helps the Soviets support their expanded military activities in Siberia. Sources in Seoul also say that Soviet submarines are bolder than in the past about playing cat-and-mouse with South Kore an coastal patrol boats...
...that responsibility, the Soviets will fill the vacuum. Then the fence sitting will begin, with everyone waiting to see which will blow-a Chinese wind or a Soviet wind." Right now, and for the foreseeable future, the wind everyone is worried about is blowing down on East Asia from Siberia...