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...Helsinki meeting was bound to provoke skepticism, coming as it does less than a week after the end of the Apollo-Soyuz flight, another extravaganza that seemed more important for political show business than for substance. Unlike the Congress of Vienna (see box page 18), the Helsinki congress -the final phase of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)-will probably not be remembered by history as much of a landmark. Its main official business will be the signing of a 100-page, 30,000-word joint declaration that is known so far as simply the "Final...
...canopy of three red and white parachutes, the Apollo spacecraft hit the gentle Pacific swells northwest of Hawaii just 4½ miles off the bow of the recovery carrier New Orleans. The only visible problem aboard the craft as it returned from its historic space rendezvous with a Soviet Soyuz was minor. Some of the parachute shrouds caught on the Apollo's nose and capsized it; that left Astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Donald ("Deke") Slayton hanging face down from the straps holding them in their contour-fitted couches for several minutes until flotation balloons could right...
...problem was the only real mishap in a nearly perfect double exercise. Leaving behind the orbiting Apollo after their 44-hour handclasp in the sky, Soyuz earlier in the week came to a near bull's-eye touchdown on a dusty Kazakhstan plain, ending what Soyuz Commander Aleksei Leonov in his colloquial English said was a flight that seemed to go "as smooth as a peeled egg." The Kremlin promptly hailed the joint mission with yet another barrage of pronouncements. Exulted Izvestia: SUCCESS IN OUTER SPACE FOR PEACE. The Russians had more reason to crow. At week...
Skeptical World. Doing his bit for détente, NASA Administrator James Fletcher said that the U.S.-Soviet flight had "shown a sometimes skeptical world that perhaps there is a real chance for world unity." That theme is sure to be heard repeatedly later in August when the two Soyuz cosmonauts arrive in the U.S. for a tour. But no reruns of the Apollo-Soyuz space spectacular are possible until the 1980s, when American astronauts again take to orbit aboard the space shuttle, a new generation of reusable craft that launch from a pad and land on a runway...
...Yorkers, for example, are toying with the notion of an off-season $998-per-person package holiday in Russia, which 5,057 Americans visited in the first four months of this year-an increase of 42% over the same period last year. In the spirit of Apollo-Soyuz, the New Yorkers figure, Brezhnev may even invite them to a champagne lunch in the Kremlin...