Word: volga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hear the Chinese tell it, the caper came right out of a spy novel. "It was the evening of Jan. 15 when the streets in the Chinese capital were emptying," reported the official New China News Agency. "A gray Soviet Volga car sped out of the Soviet embassy in China. Winding through streets and lanes, it left the city and raced toward the northeastern outskirts...
...result of his Bonn summit, he has a Mercedes 450, and his Kremlin garage also holds a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. He has a splendid dacha in Zavidova, 70 miles away from Moscow, equipped with swimming pool and sauna, high-speed boats for dashing along the Volga, and a vast duck and boar-hunting preserve...
...plan is put into action, Occidental and San Francisco's Bechtel Corp. will build a huge chemical-plant complex in the Volga River city of Kuibyshev. It would produce up to 4,000,000 tons of liquid ammonia and 1,000,-000 tons of urea annually, which Occidental would get over a 20-year period in return for its investment...
...snowy plain near the Volga River 625 miles southeast of Moscow stands the most important monument to East-West trade yet erected: the $800 million Togliatti auto plant. Completed in 1970 and equipped by Italy's Fiat, the plant is scheduled to turn out some 500,000 sedans this year. For businessmen throughout the West, Togliatti's completion stands as proof that capitalists and Communists can cooperate in a major industrial venture. But for Fiat, the experience has been a virtually profitless ordeal...
...Soviets have begun to take remedial action. Most recently they announced that Russia, like the U.S. and Great Britain, will set up an environmental-protection service to police air and water pollution throughout the nation. Beyond that, the government will spend over $1 billion to clean up the Volga and Ural drainage basins, $840 million for purifying facilities in 420 factories, and $360 million for sewage-treatment plants in 15 cities. At Irkutsk, new water-treatment plants have already made the Angara River, Mayor N.F. Salatsky says, "as clear as a woman's tears." It will be many years...