Word: via
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...between Russia's Maritime Kray (Region) and the Chinese province of Heilungkiang was fixed by the Treaties of Aigun (1858) and Peking (1860), and in the 100 peaceful years that followed the Russians built up the huge Far Eastern port of Vladivostok and linked it with western Russia via the Trans-Siberian Railway...
...continue Saturday at Versailles' recently refurbished Grand Trianon. Nixon will return the hospitality by giving a dinner at the U.S. Embassy hard by the Place de la Concorde Saturday night: ironically, his hostess will be Eunice Kennedy Shriver, wife of the U.S. ambassador. Sunday, before he leaves for Washington via the Vatican, Nixon will confer with Henry Cabot Lodge and his Viet Nam negotiating team...
...color of a Sardinian (Catalan influence in his native Sardinia accounts for his Spanish-sounding name). He is served well at interminably long party meetings by another physical attribute: he can sit for hours without getting sore or restless. For this, comrades at national headquarters on Rome's Via delle Botteghe Oscure call him culo di ferro, which roughly translates into "Iron Bottom...
Russia's "Via Pacifica" diplomacy and the new responses of some South American countries to it have brought about a quantum increase in the Russian presence. The Soviets within the past two years have opened embassies in Colombia and Chile as well as Peru, and are now recognized by six South American nations. Even where there is no formal relationship, Moscow has been busy pushing rubles and culture. Total Russian trade with Latin America is growing and now amounts to $260 million, compared with $157 million in 1965. Moreover, in pursuit of diplomatic gains, the Russians graciously...
...Warsaw on Feb. 20 might also be affected. Peking assailed Richard Nixon as a "jackal" and demanded that Liao be returned. Repercussions against Liao's family (a wife and two children) back in China could be expected, although there were reports that they had been smuggled out via Hong Kong before Liao made his move...