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...pilot would yield vital secrets about Soviet air-weapons technology. But U.S. experts who were dispatched to Japan for a three-week study of the aircraft have come to a different and surprising conclusion: the much-touted superplane brought to the West by Soviet Air Force 1st Lieut. Viktor Belenko is, in many respects, a clinker...
Soviet jet experts faced a serious problem: despite the use of grain alcohol, an old but effective deicer, the windshields of MIG-25 Foxbat interceptors were icing up. What had gone wrong? The answer, according to Lieut. Viktor Ivanovich Belenko: Soviet crew chiefs on the ground were drinking the grain alcohol to relieve Siberian boredom and surreptitiously replacing the liquid with water...
...Communist parties in Moscow and most of the Soviet-bloc countries, including Cuba and Mongolia. A diatribe against Moscow's policy toward the developing world was entitled "Soviet Quack Medicine Go to Hell." The Chinese also took delight in the defection to the West of MIG-25 Pilot Viktor Belenko (TIME, Sept. 20), cheering that it "put the Soviets in a fix and shamed them into a rage...
...that manner, 1st Lieut. Viktor Ivanovich Belenko, 29, last week pulled off one of the most daring escapes of the cold war. In the view of U.S. Air Force and intelligence experts, it was also one of the most significant; Belenko was flying the MIG-25, which has never been examined by Western specialists. Called "Foxbat" in the NATO code, it is the world's fastest weapons-carrying warplane, having attained a record speed* of 1,852.6 m.p.h. and a test altitude of 118,000 ft.-outrunning and outclimbing even the newest U.S. fighter planes. Thus a study...
...hour chamber opera was composed in 1944 inside Theresienstadt, a "model" camp. The piece was in rehearsal but was banned after a similarity between the Emperor and the Führer was detected. Composer Viktor Ullmann, prolific in prewar Vienna, and Librettist Peter Kien, a young painter and poet, were later sent to Auschwitz, where they died. Their manuscript was rediscovered in London three years ago by British Conductor Kerry Woodward, who presented it with The Netherlands Opera Company in Amsterdam...