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...French leftist daily Quotidien de Paris reflected the serious second thoughts about Europe's earlier outburst. In a front-page article, it noted: "The reprobation against Franco's excesses gives a good conscience to other nations at a time when political torture [exists] in 70 countries. Tass denounced 'Franco repressions,' but how do the Russians deal with their political opposition...
Gunfire Exchanges. Outside Saigon, the Communists also have problems. A Tass dispatch from South Viet Nam last week confirmed that there have been frequent exchanges of gunfire a few miles north of Saigon between Communist troops and holdout ARVN units. This last-ditch resistance is likely to be short-lived; one member of an anti-Communist army group, in a letter to his family in Saigon, conceded that "we know we have no chance of winning, but we will fight anyway...
...tumultuous month, the Khmer Rouge conquest of Cambodia and the Communist triumphs in South Viet Nam were reported in the Soviet press with striking discretion. The first official Moscow communique on Saigon's fall emphasized that it was primarily a victory for detente rather than for Communism. Said Tass: "A most dangerous source of international tension and military conflict has been eliminated...
...previously served as charge d'affaires in Havana. Today the Russian embassy has an official staff of 15-roughly the same size as the American mission. Perhaps more important, there are about 120 Russians and non-diplomats employed as administrative staff and as representatives of Aeroflot, Tass and the Novotny Bank...
...line dispatch, Tass reported that the mission was aborted when an upper stage of the Vostok booster rocket began carrying Soyuz 18 off course; at that point, the rocket shut down automatically and the spacecraft was set free for return to earth. The two cosmonauts, Vasily Lazarev, 46, and Oleg Makarov, 41, seem to have escaped injury, but Western observers pointed out that if the upper-stage engine had fired a few seconds longer, the cosmonauts might well have come down in China...