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...down the channel it had navigated on its own ten days before. Finally it cast off. Then, joining the flotilla of naval vessels hovering anxiously beyond the twelve-nautical-mi. limit, Soviet "Whiskey"-class submarine No. 137 headed for its home base at Baltiysk, near the port of Kaliningrad. So ended, peacefully enough, the diplomatic uproar that began when Sweden discovered the sub on a reef in a restricted military zone only nine miles from Karlskrona, an ultrasensitive naval base on the Baltic Sea. The incursion of the sub, said Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin last week, was "the most flagrant...
...steel complex at Kursk, where the Wehrmacht, ironically, suffered defeat in the biggest tank battle of World War II. When West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow this week, he and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev may discuss plans for a project to build a generating plant in Kaliningrad, on the Baltic, that would supply electricity, carried through East Germany, to West Germany...
...lives of the cosmonauts themselves got a colorful airing. Leonov, now 30, was born in the village of Listvyanka in the Kuznetsk coal-mining region of Siberia, where his mother earned the Order of Maternal Glory, First Class, for her family of nine. In 1948 his parents moved to Kaliningrad (formerly Konigsberg in East Prussia), which had been abandoned by its German masters...
...Warnemünde, docks are being built to establish one of the world's largest ports. It will be open to Soviet shipping this year. A 15-year inland waterway scheme will link Berlin and Magdeburg by a system of canals and rivers with Russia's Kaliningrad (formerly East Prussian Königsberg) and Poland's industrial Bydgoszcz...
...forth from Kaliningrad (née Konigsberg) on the cruiser Ordzhonikidze, Scotland Yard completed its survey of more than 200 Russian and satellite exile groups, to make sure that none of their more ardent spirits would have a chance to take a potshot at the visitors...