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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American astronauts walked on the lunar surface, no Russian had yet ventured more than a few hundred miles into space. The prospects for an imminent Soviet manned lunar mission dimmed even further last week when it was revealed that the Russian space program had recently been struck by a major disaster...
Soyuz Failure. The big booster was apparently designed for at least one of three alternative missions: 1) a direct landing on the moon by two cosmonauts, 2) the launch of an unmanned lander that would scoop up lunar material and return it to earth, or 3) the launch of major components of a manned orbiting platform. But the accident delayed further tests of the rocket. The lofting of three manned Soyuz shots last month, for example, apparently fell short of its goal. Two of the craft were equipped with docking collars, but failed to link up. Why? According to Aviation...
...choice but to foster good relations with the regime that controls an important base in the area. Even so, the action will come as a blow to those Greeks who feel that only the U.S. can deliver them from their oppressive situation. It will, of course, be a major boost for the colonels, who all along have sought to give the Greek public the impression that the U.S. approves of their regime...
...records the protests and persecution of the country's dissenters. It is a small, often tattered, clandestine newsletter called Chronicle of Current Events. Despite constant KGB (secret police) efforts to stamp it out, the Chronicle, which usually runs no more than 40 typescript pages, circulates among intellectuals in major Soviet cities with the speed of a brush fire...
...July 11, Genrikh Altunian, a Soviet army major and a teacher at the Military Institute of Kharkov, was arrested after a house search had turned up copies of Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward and issues of the Chronicle. He was expelled from the Communist Party, cashiered from the army and jailed in a KGB isolation prison...