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Under NASA'S austerity program, the only manned spaceflights still on schedule are Apollo 17 in December, three Skylab missions, and the orbital linkup with the Russians in 1975. Deke Slayton, chief of flight-crew operations who was recently returned to flight status after a long battle with a heart irregularity, bluntly sums up the situation: "We have had a surplus [of astronauts] for the past three or four years. The writing is on the wall...
...first joint U.S.-Soviet space venture, the Russians had originally proposed an ambitious series of rendezvous and docking maneuvers by three spacecraft, including their 20-ton Salyut space laboratory. But just a few weeks ago, the Soviets suggested a less complex linkup of only two ships. They explained that any larger enterprise might prove to be too unmanageable in space. Even in its scaled-down version, however, the project will be an impressive undertaking...
Future Soviet nuclear projects, Seaborg says, are even more ambitious. The Russians are considering blasting a deep channel that would divert water from the Pechora River to the nearby Kama River, which flows into the Caspian Sea. That linkup, engineers anticipate, would increase the amount of water supplied to the Caspian Sea, which has dropped nearly ten feet in the past 35 years, affecting docking facilities, caviar-producing sturgeon and even the local climate...
Countering China. Oddly enough, China's Chou, in his interview with New York Timesman James Reston, expressed a parallel concern (see THE PRESS). His government, he indicated, was worried about what they feel are Japanese aggressive designs for a Tokyo-Taipei-Seoul linkup. At one point during the interview, in fact, Reston told the Premier: "Nothing has surprised me quite as much since coming here as the vehemence of your feeling about Japan." Obviously, however, Peking's principal preoccupation is with its conflict with the Soviet Union...
...irony is that this time it is the British who may keep themselves out of the Common Market. British sentiment has turned sharply against a linkup. Aware of the strong antiMarket tide, Heath said last week that he would not submit the entry issue to Parliament until after the summer recess and the annual party conferences in early October. By that time he hopes that an extensive government publicity campaign will have rallied grass-roots support for EEC membership, but it is just as possible that the opposition will have become more deeply entrenched. Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson...