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...with 1963's partial nuclear test ban and the nuclear nonproliferation pact of 1968. Nor is it any substitute for the long-delayed strategic arms limitation talk (SALT), which Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko last month promised to consider "soon." Still, like the treaties denuclearizing Antarctica and outer space, the seabed proposal at least offers the hope that one more area may be closed to the arms race...
Western scientists have speculated that the four spaceships will rendezvous and the cosmonauts will assemble an orbitting space station from parts supplied by Intercosmos...
Soyuz 8, manned by two experienced space pilots, lifted off from the Baikaonur cosmodrome in Soviet Central Asia to join Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 7, which were sent aloft on Saturday and Sunday...
Soyuz 6 has special welding equipment on board apparently to be used to construct a manned orbiting platform after the thrice vessels link up in space. Some of the cosmonauts could stay behind to man the station while the others returned to earth and new crews could be sent up as relief, American experts theorized...
This country does not plan to construct its own space station until 1972, concentrating in the near future on further flights to the moon...