 Why do the Americans need to ask the Russians for help?
General Finogenov notified Major Winship that the underground blast was scheduled for the following morning. "Help?" " Nyet ," said Major Winship, exhausting his Russian. "Ah, it's all Russian. "The only way you can check is to extrude it," Lt. Chandler said, "and if it does extrude, you've ruined it." The Soviet base was situated some ten miles toward sunset at the bottom of a natural fold in the surface. At that point, the best pathway angled left and made an S-shaped descent to the basin. And there's only seven of them right now. "Finogenov had a clay samovar sent up.
 They need more calking compound to fix the leak. All of what they had has already hardened.
 They don't understand the instructions for the compound.  They need help fixing the leak. They don't know how to use the calking compound.  They need more manpower to help fix the rest of the dome.  They need more calking compound to fix the leak. All of what they had has already hardened.