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...America," and it can be anywhere-north, west or south-just as long as it is out of Washington and away from what he regards as the capital's "cynicism and petulance." Last week Kissinger embarked upon a trip to the heartland of the heartland, Minnesota and Wisconsin, in an attempt to sell his policies, and himself. As it turned out, Kissinger proved to be an accomplished barnstormer who hugely enjoyed the attention he received in a middle America that still sees him as Supersecretary, the hero of U.S. foreign affairs...
After the welcoming ceremonies at the airport, the Kissingers climbed into a special armored limousine that had earlier been flown out to Wisconsin aboard a huge Air Force C-141 Starlifter. The Marc Plaza Hotel had already been thoroughly checked out by the Secret Service, and the Kissingers were quartered in a suite on the 24th floor that had been secured by the agents. (The only unexpected jarring note was the appearance of ten white-helmeted, swastika-decorated pickets from the freakish American Nazi Party...
More important, it raised questions about whether Soviet controllers had sufficient capability to safely manage two missions simultaneously. Carl Duckett, the CIA's deputy director for science and technology, expressed deep doubts about that last month in testimony before Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire's Senate subcommittee on appropriations. In response, Proxmire urged NASA to postpone the mission until the Salyut cosmonauts returned to earth. But NASA officials rejected the idea, saying that they had full confidence in the Soviet flight controllers...
DONALD K. ("DEKE") SLAYTON, 51, docking-module pilot, is the oldest and among the toughest and most outspoken Americans ever to orbit the earth. A ruggedly handsome World War II bomber pilot, Wisconsin-born Slayton studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Minnesota; he and ins wife Marjory have an 18-year-old son. Slayton was one of the seven original Mercury astronauts. Only two months before ins scheduled liftoff, however, doctors grounded inm because of an occasional irregularity in ins heartbeat. Bitterly disappointed ("I got zapped by a three-man board of civilian doctors who didn't examine...
...from retirement to save them from what they see as despotic rule. The independent-minded son of a minor Bihar state official, Narayan at the age of 19 used a $600 wedding gift to set off alone to the U.S., where he studied at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin and became a convert to Communism. Returning to India, he became deeply involved with Gandhi and Nehru in the independence movement. Still, he was not an advocate of Gandhi's principles of nonviolence and organized a guerrilla force to disrupt rails and communications and foment strikes and riots...