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...Soviet envoy, Ambassador Viktor Maltsev, totally rejected a series of "confidence-building" measures, including one that would permit Communist observers at NATO military maneuvers and Westerners at Warsaw Pact exercises. Warning that the East bloc would allow "no room for the dissemination of anticulture," Maltsev implied that Western proposals for an increased flow of ideas and people between East and West would go nowhere. The point was later made more bluntly in a Pravda article, which scoffed that "such impudent claims will meet a firm rebuff...
...bemused counselor of the Soviet embassy, Viktor Isakov, appeared at the office of Montana Senator Mike Mansfield. "We are puzzled by this request," he said. "Could you please explain?" Mansfield's staff declared that nothing could be done until the citizens asked for a new dam and raised their property taxes to provide flood control. After hearing Isakov's report, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin decided against intervention...
...coffeehouses and Ferdinand's restaurant is having a meeting next week to discuss returning to the group's former practice of employing a uniformed police detail every day of the week. Last year, they modified the policy. The policeman now patrols only on the weekend nights, according to Viktor A. Imhof, manager of the Idler and the Back Room Coffeehouses...
...soft, parachute landing on the steppes of Soviet Kazakhstan, a recovery helicopter was ready and waiting to touch down right alongside. Members of the recovery team raced to the apparently undamaged Soyuz 11, unfastened the hatch and swung it open to assist Cosmonauts Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev. Still strapped in their seats, the cosmonauts did not respond. All three were dead. Russia's triumphant space mission, which had set new records for man's endurance in space, assembled the first manned space station and added new luster to Soviet technology, had suddenly ended in tragedy...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Georgy Dobrovolsky, 43, Vladislav Volkov, 35, and Viktor Patsayev, 38, crew of the Soyuz 11 Soviet spacecraft (see SCIENCE...