Show h Page 9 May 21 1975 Soviets building huge space-launc- h complex By PAUL RECER AP Aerospace Writer SPACE CENTER Houston — The Soviet Union is (AP) The astronaut said the Soviets indicated they planned several manned flights a year in the future in contrast to American plans which do not include a manned flight after this year until late 1979 Stafford Brand and Slayton will be the American crew for a joint US Russian space flight set for launch in July They visited the Soviet space center as part of the preparation for that mission Stafford said the city of Leninsk and its launch complex is so large that when the astronauts flew out of it at night they passed lights of launch pads for 15 to 18 minutes after takeoff Stafford said the sheer size makes the Cape “look pretty building a huge space launching complex in a remote desert of entral Asia the first Americans to visit JtheJaciUtysay Astronauts Thomas P Stafford Vance D Brand and Donald -- at a news conference Wednesday that the K Slayton said Soviets are building a city of 50000 called Leninsk and constructing a launch complex “three to four times as big as the Cape” They referred to the American spaceport at Cape Canaveral Fla “It a forwardgoing program” Stafford said of the Soviet space effort “They are not slowing one bit” is definitely puny” He said that the astronauts briefly were confident of the safety of the Soviet spacecraft after in- July 15 “Everything right on specting the ships in Russia He said he was confident the mission would be launched on schedule is schedule and ready to go” he said “We see no hitches to a successful mfssibhrr Plans call for a Soviet craft with two cosmonauts on board to be launched from Russia followed by the launch several hours later of an Apollo from Cape Canaveral with three astronauts on board The Apollo will dock with the Soyuz to test a common docking mechanism which in the future will make it possible for spacecraft of the two nations to link up in orbit Hanoi Hilton visited A plastered brick wall encloses the quadrangle of villas and center garden Two sentry posts built atop the wall are unoccupied A barbed wire fence about four feet high surmounted by three single strands of wire runs along the top of the brick wall It looks like it has not had any maintenance for two years and sags in spots HANOI North Vietnam (AP) the back of a dark red wooden door at the “Hanoi — On where American prisoners were held before the 1973 cease-fir- e someone wrote in Hilton” pink: “Sunshine Suite” On a plastered brick wall someone pencilled: “The light at the end of this tunnel” and began a countdown On two other plastered brick walls similar countdowns were carefully pencilled in small neat lettering and tiny figures All the buildings of red tiled roofs plastered brick walls and concrete floors which surround a garden square are “one-stor- None of the windows of villas h wooden have bars Their with small fastened are doors iron slipbolts Each villa has shaded veranda In the garden are tall shade trees palms and one-inc- casuarina trees around a large y pond No Picking garden sign in Vietnamese says: “Picking Any Kind of Flower Is Not Allowed” Management of Hanoi Film Distribution Service plans to A being refurbished by teams of plasterers and painters mostly young women Sunshine Suite But “Sunshine Suite” and three drain the pond refill it with fresh water and put in goldfish The camp is a small countdowns have not been painted over as yet - countdowns which all started as one explicitly noted at “1 pm Jan 27 Paris - in 60 days “9 pm 27 Jan Hanoi” The Vietnam in Paris on Jan cease-fir- e 27 1973 signed provided for the return of prisoners of war within 60 days On Wednesday celebrated by the North Vietnamese as the 21st anniversary of their victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu the big suburban complex of villas once known to Americans as Hanoi Hilton” was opened for visits by X'F’n e”wshie n Now the villas have been released by the North Vietnam army and returned to the Hanoi film distribution service for use as offices and film laboratories their old function before they began housing American airmen taken prisoner in bombing of North Vietnam During the bombing pause in 1970 when two AP correspondents spent 18 days in government-conducte- d travels from the demilitarized zone to coal export center Hon Gay within 50 miles of China they were told meeting any American prisoners or visit to their Hanoi area camp would be very difficult to arrange On Wednesday after five years we at least saw their old quarters Nguyen Due Dac vice director of Hanoi Film Distribution Service said “internees” had two volleyball courts and one again basketball court for from the heavily-travele- d National Highway out of and is surrounded by small crowded workers’ homes Some of the thatch roofs and Hanoi walls are made of effect on a visitor is matting-Thlike finding spacious villas from the Appian Way in the midst of Roman tenements At the green wooden entrance gate there’s a reception building whose interior is decorated with Soviet posters advertising Tn?7viSrtfn5FSowwntrtheViet-namese For the movie “Olessia” there’s a portrait of a goldenhaired girl in a golden dress running lightheartedly through a wood In the lower corner of poster is depicted a gentleman sportsman in a deerstalker cap and holding a shotgun in kneehigh golden brush while behind him rise onion domes of a mud-plaster- ed e church Another poster shows beautiful smiling blonde in broadbrimmed straw hat white summer dress Another shows a girl with shoulder-lengt- h red curls and a raked regency hat with blue band She’s wearing a green dress white shirt waist with high collar and a large purple brooch SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints Mormon announced today the appointment of a Navajo Indian to be a mission president and the orgapjsatifta of qrnew mission with headquarters in Albuquerque NM Church officials said George Patrick Lee 32 a Navajo from Shiprock NM who now lives in Orem Utah will head the Albuquerque mission beginning in July He is former president of College of Ganado on the Navajo Indian Reservation in northern Arizona Lee is also a USU graduate not very popular in India US 1 Ohio MECHANICSBURG (AP) — “It’s really very hard for us to understand” says Dolly Saxbe wife of the US ambassador to India “We always think we’re the good guys but as a government we’re not very popular in India” Mrs Saxbe home from New Delhi for a visit told an interviewer in Columbus by telephone that the only thing she doesn’t like about India is its official animosity toward the United States The wife of Ambassador William B Saxbe she said she is enthusiastic about her new embassy home Indian people culture and food “We love it” she said “We’d bBeuthege-iut£tim- es We knej£ the house and most of the staff “The embassy is beautiful airy just a lovely house The whole complex won an international prize in architecture you know" Not so pleasant she said are headlines in the the newspapers every day and the student demonstrators who gather frequently outside the anti-Americ- an embassy While the official attitude seems to be “we’re India’s biggest enemy personally and socially they’re great” Mrs Saxbe said She said the Indians “were gleeful” over the fall of South Vietnam delighted that the our United States “got comeuppance” Mrs Saxbe said the attitude is partly due to the tensions between India and Pakistan The United States supported Pakistan in its war with India over Bangladesh Mrs Saxbe also cited a little of the “rich relative” reaction to assistance all the United States has given India and a little “snobbery” left over --ircngL English jule She said Indians seem tcTstill retain some of the supercilious British feeling about Americans “It’s peculiar” she said “Most of them have children over here either working or in school - 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