Jul 14 1968
From The Space Library
U.S. and U.S.S.R. had exchanged private messages which raised hope initial talks on limiting nuclear missiles would begin in few weeks, according to Geneva sources quoted by Washington Post's Murree Marder. Possible obstacle was Warsaw meeting of U.S.S.R. and Eastern European officials over Czechoslovakian advance toward liber- alization. U.S.-U.S.S.R. accord on nuclear missile production presumably would interact on Soviet strength in Eastern Europe, weakening it as East-West tension subsided. (W Post, 7/15/68, Al)
George Alexander reviewed in Washington Post Erik Bergaust's Murder on Pad 34, story of Jan. 27, 1967, Apollo fire. Book was "characterized by sloppy errors of omission and commission, innuendo and pointlessness," Alexander said. "It was good fortune, nothing else, that the various mechanical flaws and human faults that occurred in the . . . Mercury and Gemini programs did not coincide .. . as they did inside Apollo-one. Foresight tries to prevent such coincidence, but . . . not all possible coincidence can be foreseen. . . Accidents . . . will happen. And the searching investigation conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration into Apollo-one could find no evidence that the fatal fire was anything but an accident." (Book World, W Post, 7/14/68, 4-5)
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