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Under the direction of the same earth-bound "driver" who successfully operated Lunokhod 1 for more than 10 months (according to a local joke, he is a former Moscow cabbie), the 1,848-lb. vehicle promptly began reconnoitering the area. In the span of about half an hour, said Tass, it crawled about 30 yds., taking a small crater "in its stride." Its protruding lobster-like TV eyes gave the ground team "a good view of the moonscape." Then, after completing this initial exercise, the robot was given a day's rest so that it could soak...
...Tass, the Soviet news agency, avoided blaming Nixon and instead said that the Pentagon was responsible: "The list of bloody crimes of the American military has been extended by thousands of new victims. The new monstrous crimes of the American military push further away the possibility of a peaceful settlement...
Moscow shed no light on the puzzle. Before the Albanian explanation but after Norwegian vessels had dropped depth charges in response to positive sonar soundings, Tass called the air-sea hunt "just an expression of the usual war hysteria in the West." Perhaps significantly, though, at no time did the Kremlin specifically deny that a Soviet sub-or subs-might have been inside Norwegian waters. At week's end, the mystery remained at least as deep as Sogne Fjord's 600 fathoms...
ROGER FISHER PROFESSOR OF LAW advocated that his International Conflict for Beginners be revised to include International Conflict fot Beginners on Ice, when Richard Pipes. Director of the Russian Research Center, announced that Harvard was going to put out a Slavic daily called Veri Tass. On rethinking the situation entirely. Roger Fisher decided to call the book War and Peace...
...after the agreement had been signed. From Hanoi, Le Due Tho sent word to Kissinger that he would meet him in Paris this week on Monday?but only if the U.S. was ready to sign on the Tuesday, Oct. 31 "deadline." At week's end the Soviet news agency Tass took the highly unusual step of reporting that Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin had personally urged the North Vietnamese to continue negotiating...