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Show jeltind lite JdeadilneA squandered for the sake of national na-tional pride. Because of this, no one would be surprised anymore to learn that countries like the Congo, Egypt, Cuba and Argentina Argen-tina plan space programs next. Israel's space-missiles program is already diverting funds needed for economic development and water irrigation projects, etc. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration discloses that it is under pressure to include in-clude more women in our Astronaut Astro-naut training program. The Army has been pressuring NASA The country, which has been anxiously awaiting its next manned space flight, appears to have been intrigued, and in some instances even disillusioned, by a whole series of unexpected space developments having nothing noth-ing directly to do with voyages into the void. Americans are now being asked to consider the prospect of greeting Soviet Cosmonauts Gagarin and Titov on a tour of the United States, at the same moment retired Rightist Army General Edwin Walker is trying to rally them against "peaceful to include an Army Astronaut on the Navy-Marine-Air Force team. There is strong pressure to give German-born Dr. Wer-nher Wer-nher von Braun a wider role. It's reported that he's been offered of-fered a freer hand in a West German space program than he has here. An unexpected space development develop-ment has been NASA's public announcement that it has been under "strong pressure" to name a Negro Astronaut "to win broader support for U.S. space coexistence." Talk of U.S.-USSR space co-operation, even as each supposedly supposed-ly girds for war over Berlin, may sound a hopeful note in the Cold War. But it also punctures the pride of those who had hoped that America should go-it-alone in outer space, without sharing our success with the Soviets. Possible U.S.-USSR space cooperation co-operation also raises the threat of Communist internal subversion, subver-sion, espionage and sabotage in our space program, which thus Americans who have seen the Astronauts display selfless courage cour-age are shocked most of all by continuing disclosures of huge industry profits on the space-missiles space-missiles program, union missile base strikes and wild business scrambling to monopolize space communications: all an odd comment com-ment on space. efforts at home and abroad." NASA says it will apply no racial criteria in the Astronauts' selection. selec-tion. NASA has now begun a trial-balloon trial-balloon pre-conditioning of the public for the possibility that our Astronauts may die in space. NASA Director James Webb says bluntly that same of our spacemen may died as our projects proj-ects become more complex, and we should expect the open coverage cover-age of our space program to reveal re-veal failures as well as successes. suc-cesses. There are reports that even though our Astronauts are known to favor meeting Soviet Cosmonauts Cosmo-nauts Gagarin and Titov, they are skeptical about Soviet-American space cooperation. But they are also told they should use any friendship with the Cosmonauts Cosmo-nauts to learn more about the secretive Soviet space program, just as the U.S. sought to use Colonel Charles A. Lindberg's profesisonal esteem to learn of Goering's pre-World War II Nazi aviation advances. The GOP is eagerly studying ways to use every Astronaut complaint about censorship, "muzzling," muddling, etc. to political advantage. Republicans are sounding out each of the Astronauts about entering politics. poli-tics. The GOP is circulating reports re-ports that most, if not all the Astronauts, voted for Nixon over Kennedy in the 1960 elections, while Democrats, examining their families' home voting records, rec-ords, say most of the Astronauts far has been remarkably free of spies and "witch-hunting." Communist threats to put an H-bomb in an artificial earth satellite and explode it in outer space or over the United States, open up terrifying new dimensions dimen-sions of warfare, at the same moment Moscow claims it is interested in-terested in peaceful space cooperation. co-operation. The statement by space legal experts that the 1970's may see armed Soviet-American space teams skirmishing for possession of the moon, opens up the spectre of "new Korean wars" in outer space only a few years hence. Great Britain's entry into the space race by the scheduled launching of its own "Octopus" earth satellite, shows that our Allies are engaging in the same wasteful duplication of space efforts ef-forts we did before curbing inter-service inter-service space rivalry and duplication dupli-cation at the Pentagon. The disclosure that France, Italy and West Germany each also intend to launch rival space projects, shows that NATO has failed to pool its vast scientific talent, even though its economies are being pooled in the West European Eur-opean Common Market. The complaint by some of our NATO Allies that the U.S. is failing fail-ing to share all of its space knowledge, suggests that the U.S. could end up engaging in closer space cooperation with our enemies, ene-mies, the Communists, than with our Allies, if U.S.-USSR space cooperation develops. A few of our Allies are urging, therefore, come from families with Democratic Demo-cratic voting registrations. The GOP has circulated Astronaut Astro-naut Donald K. ("Deke") Slay-ton's Slay-ton's open complaints about the decision to ground him in scheduling sched-uling the next orbital flight because be-cause of "an erratic heart." It's reported that the entire Astronaut Astro-naut team appealed to President Kennedy to reverse the ruling, which was promptly qualified. Muted cries of "Astronaut Payola" were even heard when Texas Home Builders offered each a gift house, when their exclusive publishing contracts that they should beat the U.S. to the punch and begin pooling their own space resources with the Russians first, in return for greater East-West trade., Their pride has been hurt. Even the Neutralists are getting get-ting into the act. Swiss and Swedish Swed-ish preliminary space planning is underway. India is "studying" a "modest" space program that would depend upon Soviet, American and U.N. support. Japan's space program, to begin be-gin two years hence, reminds us that Red China's may not be far behind. For the CIA has dis- were "re-examined" and critics began complaining that Astronaut Astro-naut testimonials, business ventures, ven-tures, realty investments and remarks re-marks about seeking extra hazard-duty pay were cheapening their heroic stature. Even Soviet propagandists appealed to the Astronauts to "rise above the profit motive in rejecting Capitalist Capi-talist exploitation of their space achievements." closed that even though the Red Chinese communal economy is floundering, Peiping still is giving giv-ing "crash program" priority to space-atomic weapons development. devel-opment. The mushrooming space plans by smaller nations still struggling strug-gling to raise their people's living liv-ing standards, shows that monies best applied elsewhere are to be |