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Both sides are eagerly preparing for that pioneering venture. Taking a break from the joint training exercises at Star City, the Soviet cosmonaut center outside Moscow, Apollo Commander Thomas Stafford last week said: "I am fully confident of success." His Soviet counterpart, Alexei Leonov, more than echoed his optimism: "Everything is going efficiently and on schedule...
Ulam said that if Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin had flown to Cairo as reported, it indicated that serious attempts were under way to resolve the Middle East war through a joint U.S.-Soviet effort...
While the war escalated along the Suez, Egypt's official news agency said yesterday that Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin has held "three long meetings" with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt in Cairo...
...West trade: "The question of true mutual exchange of goods must be judged much more skeptically. The Soviet Union can supply the West with raw materials, but most of the other Eastern European nations lack that capability." Last year he had a long talk at the Kremlin with Premier Alexei Kosygin, and the session apparently went well. Dresdner last week announced that it had applied for Soviet permission to open an office in Moscow and become the first Western bank represented there...
Like the DC-3. A 27-seat trijet, the YAK can fly on one engine and take off or land on a 1,300-ft.-long dirt strip. It sells for less than $1,200,000. As the designer, Alexei Yakovlev, told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin: "My ship is a true jet successor to the Douglas DC-3. The YAK-40 can operate out of any field that can take a DC-3, and no other jet transport meets that specification...