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Show Soviet Space Flights: An Intimate New Look , What- (Ed'tor'. Nofr ,MC. unrt countdown llko? How do cosmonaut and thoir tt Mvo? Art famillea Human really In a fact with the U. S. to land men on the moon? Answers to such auestkms always have been d secrets. Bot mcently Moscow began to lift the secrecy M. This oave the author, a German who has covered the Soviet space since Sputnik I, an opportunity to discover heretofore unknown details about Russian launches nd cosmonauts.) By CUENTEK KARWEINA Its the day before launch, and . Cos- monaut Vladimir Shatalov, 41, is very nervous. He has to make several public "5V,V ' Xli v... y ' ' ? I." Y v ' 'A N s, "sV' s i t ' V ' ' y ns'X sy ' As i s' appearances. His day begins before breakfast with . the first press conference of his life. Seeing the cameras eyeing him, Shatalov groans: I feel like making hands up (surrendering). But he comes through very .'c I ,4 jti,' S' Y , , vx Xs 1 fV ; i y stories. Someone wants to know why he volunteered to become a cosmonaut. Because I want to know everything new in the art of flying, he replies. How difficult is your mission?" . Not too difficult If something happens while I am on the other side of the globe and without ground communications, I will have to make the right decisions on my own. Thats all. Will you make a TV report? ' Yes, I have to. But I dont like it. I have to make transmissions when I am over our country, and this I would like to see, too. On the Soyuz 3 mission, Georgi Beregovoy only rarely found time to look at, his own country because of all this dreary TV work . . The press conference is over. Shatalov goes to a reception given by space officials. Meantime, the reporters not only visit the launching pad, but they ride to tht.top of the rocket and look through the open hatch intq the Soyuz 4 spacecraft (At Cape Kennedy reporters are kept three miles away from the rocket and spacecraft on the day before the launch.) It is apparent that the Russians have been deeply impressed by Americas policy, of open publicity regarding space activities, and they have lifted the secrecy lid, however slightly, on their own program. ; - The quick look we get reveals there is something decidedly human about a Rusmore like a small sian space launch town celebration than a cold science-fictio- n drama. In the afternoon, Cosmonaut Shatalov i ' & ..Us ? x s 4.5 Y ? ' ' J N V' & I ,vl 'v v A' Vv y t, 'VH A "There will be little apple trees blossoming on Mars . . . But what is the Russian timetable for a moon landing? Their answers always have been vague, and only the future will tell what plans they really have. But one thing is certain: The race to the moon is still on. And in Europe, private bets are 3 to 1 in favor of the U.S. Like American astronauts, the first 12 cosmonauts cnosen were young fighter-pilot- s, but the groups selected later have engineering degrees, too. Three of the four men on the Soyuz mission come from families of the new "privileged class. Shatalovs father is a who wears in his button-hol- e the glittering star of a "Hero of Socialist Labor. Boris Volynovs parents are both doctors, and the mother of Alexei YelCosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov iseyev (his father is dead) teaches chem. . . took two space walks istry at Moscow University. Only Yevgeny Khrunov is the son of a farmer. Shatalov, the oldest of the tour, is a blond colonel, 6 feet tall, 180 pounds and the father of two children (son Igor and daughter Lena). He is a career officer and a member of the Communist Party, who became a cosmonaut in 1963. A man of quiet wit, Shatalov is an experienced scuba diver. The launching of a cosmonaut is still a state secret, even for his nearest of kin. Therefore, Shatalov told his family he was going to visit some factories 4. His m iK when he left home to fly Soyuz ' wife and children did not learn about the great adventure until Radio Moscow broadcast a special bulletin after he was in orbit. The family immediately sent him a radiogram: "Dearest Wolodja! We follow your flight, are anxious, wait for you, kiss you. The family of Shatalovs. Cosmonaut undergoes test prior to Col. Boris Volynov, 34, the commander of Soyuz 5, is a quiet, stubby Siberian. flight aboard Sayuz 4. He was backup pilot for Valery Bykovsk y who rendezvoused with a spaceship alone. piloted by Valentina Tereshkova in June, Shatalovs roomy Soyuz 4 spacecraft 1963. Fellow cosmonauts call him "the elephant," and in public he is very shy. was boosted into orbit on Jan. 14. The iicaI ua, uuz 5 followed it into space Says his close friend, Alexei Leonov, first man ot walk in space, "He will stand up with Cosmonauts Boris Volynov, Alexei to any challenge, but in front of the TV Khrunov. and ShataYeliseyev Yevgeny lov docked his spacecraft with Soyuz 5 on cameras he nearly fainted." When Col. Yevgeny Khronov, an engiJan. 16, and Yeliseyev and Khrunov transferred to Soyuz 4. Shatalov brought neer and pilot, joined the cosmonauts in his ship and two passengers back to 1960, he refused to Jump from the earth on the 17th, and Volynov brought of the swimming pool The other his vehicle down the following day. cosmonauts could not believe their eyes, After the successful flights of Soyuz 4 so visible was his fear. But five years and 5, space optimism reigns again in later Khrunov was the backup man for the Soviet Union. Valentina Tereshkova, space walker Leonov and one of the best d first woman in space and wife of Cosmojumpers in the Air Force. naut Andrian Nikolayev, is eagerly finAlexei Yeliseyev is the only civilian of ishing lyrics for the first cosmonaut the four, an engineer who joined the cosopera, Alpha and Omega (music by monauts in 1C6 as a space station specialist. A fencing champion, he still is Igor Boldryev). And all over the Soviet close-knUnion you can hear the newest hit song, something of an outsider in the s officers. group of Despite the new public relations efforts of the Russians, there is still a secrecy cloak around many details of their h'f 144 1 ' ' , rsAs I 5 ' " ' h: S' v Xs Af'' ? -. '4.'5 A;f ' J;? ' S Ac. i4rJ ; s S i sA ! , j? Ateis.v! ,sV am ,4 Rare photo of manned Soviet rocket just before launch shows Soyuz spacecraft atop appears in the great hall of the Cosmodrome where hundreds are seated. An orchestra plays solemn music. Then speakers representing different groups. workers, technicians, administrators, scientists all wish. the cosmonaut a successful mission from the deepest of our hearts. More music, heroic this time, and Shatalov stands up. He is not a great orator. He just promises to do his best and expresses full confidence in the people who have built this rocket and this spaceship." His remarks are greeted by wild applause, dozens of embraces and kisses. (This at the height of the Hong Kong flu epidemic!) Only now can the cosmonaut withdraw to his cottage, play chess with his doctors, then go to bed. Nevt morning a cream and blue bus transports him to three-stag- e rocket. the launching pad. In front of the three-stag- e rocket several hundred men and women wait for him. Embraces again, kisses, slaps on the back. Shatalov does not wear a space suit only a padded jacket and fur cap imprinted with the Soviet Star. He reports officially that he is ready to begin his flight The chairman of the state space commission delivers a speech and shakes hands with dear Comrade Shatalov. Applause, loud cries: Good flight, Wolodja! (his nickname). The cosmonaut enters the derelict looking elevator that lifts him to the More and handclapping spacecraft Bravo! Shatalov waves at the crowd below like a circus performer. Then he changes his boots for a pair of suede slippers and disappears inside the space- craft For the first time in days he is . n hnM V high-boa- rd high-boar- it Snarr, That Ad Man, Is Pushing Sign Plan Again space program. They even keep the name ot the man In charge of their space program a sewere noncommittal but still encouraging. By GORDON ELIOT WHITE OUR MAN IN WASHINGTON cret. He is just "The chief constructor The two committees will have to do Deseret News Washington Correspondent Secret, too, is the number of cosmonauts. something on the subject or be dogged There are at least 24, but probably more. forever by an enthusiastic and persistent 'WASHINGTON Douglas Snarr, the In 1963, 80 enrolled In the training Mr. Snarr. settlement house for a then not paying Salt Lake City advertising executive who which Involves a lump-suprogram. But how many stayed is not descends known. Doug Snarr periodically is trying to live up to the spirit of the with each sign company for its roadside . him for it. . Washington like a whirlwind out of beautifi. Last advertising investment highway The "Cosmonaut Wing" was comyear Congress appropriated $2 upon the West, takes up temporary headquarcation act by takmanded by Yuri Gagarin until his death Under the original highway beauty million for sign removal. Under the usual ters in ' the Senate Office Building, and of would national ing down his signs that process March 27, 1968. Now, probably, Maj. on politics, law, the states were directed to condemn' have provided $40,000 per state, enough prowls congressional corridors to push Gen. Georgi Beregovoy, a tough fighter-pilalong Utah highl slow one a one, costly, by signs proceS his program. So far he seems to be makto pay the salary of a state beautification ways, is making and commander of Soyuz 3, is in Though the passage of the act cast a ing progress with the slowly grinding another assault on his office and the director, secretary, sufficient cloud charge. over the companies, sign Hill. With wheels on both luck, Capitol the highway bu- -' rent, but hardly enough to take down any houses Today the widow of the first man in money for the expropriation of the signs could pass the bill this year that r 4 aucracy here signs. now the and was never provided, lives with her two daughters, Yelespace was introduced Sen. Frank E. Moss, by this spring. PoliteUnder with which littered the been are Snarr still has and Galina, 8, In Star Village 10, , signs. plan, highways na, to authorize $5 million in pilot ly rebuffed by the in repair, makhome endorsed no the base of the cosmonauts. Utah are the enthusiastically by Many test to kept longer Snarr the programs plan. Bureau of Public the $2 million, or beauteous even less the Highway Department, highways of Star Village is kept location ing The The project would then have to face Roads, Snarr has Mr. White than they were before the beauty act was most of it, would be used in a single pilot Cosmonaut Vladimir late but the in secret, decisions the of y turned to Congress policy Department plan to test his proposal. Hopefully, of Transportation and the Appropriations passed. Komarov once said it was near Moscow. with his plan to rid U.S. roadsides of un' course, it would be used to demolish the committees at the capital. That road is Presumably, it is also near cosmonaut Perhaps worse, most of the sign com- Snarr sightly advertisements. in Utah. signs companys not use could their long and rocky and filled with traps, not training facilities. Komarov described it panies found they Snarr has been tussling with Washingas enclosed by an iron gate and including in could the least of which is the jealousy benor was Snarr here late March in investment Doug signs, highway his ton for four years, but persistence two lakes, a theater, dubs, hospital and tween Moss Sen. Sen. and House to made Wallace and the were F. quiet approaches may yet pay off despite the inability of they get the compensation they Public Works Committee through Rep. Bennett, Both Sen. Moss and library. He said some of the cosmonaut of most the act The due. his destroyed to see way. things thp bureaucrats and to the Senate Sen. Bennett will have to exhibit a wives have jobs at these facilities. The Members of the House and Senate Public investment but did not reimburse the John Kluczynski, feud area is heavily guarded and visitors need degree of restraint in their .Works Committees have indicated pri- owners, by any standard an unfair trick, committee via Sen. Jennings Randolph, to if The succeed. the its a special pass to enter. chairman. reactions is mans Snarr a from little different his plan condemning in plan, vately that they see virtues right-of-wa- , ry vk.il: ot Li D-Il-l., MUSICAL WHIRL Time To Doff By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor - ' ' Just exactly TEMPUS FUGIT when David Freed determined that what Utah needed was a good string quartet is not known. Proba- bly, it was one of those good Ideas that evolved over a period of time. In any event, during the fall of 1958 it was announced new that a chamber music ensemble, the Utah String Freed was n being formed as the official quartet-iof Utah. residence at the University Mr, Freed, first cellist of the Utah Symphony Orchestra, together with Harold Wolfe, then the concertmaster of the Utah Symphony; Sally Peck, first violist; and Norma Lee Madsen, member of the first violins, gave their first recital on Quartet, campus. And then, just 10 years ago, the Utah String Quartet gave its first recital. By May the Quartet had recorded the for National Benjamin Lees ."Quartet Education Television (NET) and for UNESCO. During May the Utah String Quartet gave a series of three evening recitals in the Ladies Literary Club. Ihese first recitals confirmed the dreams and the talents of Mr. Freed and his fellow artists. Their impressive gifts have, indeed, been far reaching. Perhaps no single contribution of the Utah String Quartet has quite matched Ones Hat its initial work In the great Young a program Audiences, Inc., program that has now grown into approximately 300 recitals being given each year for the school children in the Salt Lake, Granite, Jordan, Murray, and Bountiful school districts. During the first years of the Utah String Quartet it also innovated several other significant projects. . One was making itself available to composition students at the University of Utah. The quartet performed many of that of the students works.. This project continued for several years and afforded these composition students opportunities for study probably unmatched In other state universities. The Utah String Quartet initiated a series of "Twilight Concerts on Sunday evenings in the Sky Room, atop Hotel Utah. These concerts were broadcast by Radio Station KSL, and many requests for recitals were received. The Utah String Quartet, or at least its members, were imong the principal organizers of the Treasure Mountain Festival of the Arts in Park City for several t summers. Through the years, many of Utahs fine musicians have performed with the Quartet In quintets and other ensembles. the personnel even Occasionally, would change temporarily. The only permanent change came in 1965 when Oscar Chausow succeeded Harold Wolfe as first violist when he became concertmaster of the Utah Symphony. (Me. Chausow has recently announced his retirement from the Utah String Quartet at the end of this season to form his Utah Piano Trio. His successor in the Utah String Quartet has not yet been announced.) Peru Showdown Result Of Appeasement By DREW PEARSON - WASHINGTON The United States happens to be right in its controversy with the Peruvian military government However, the current climax comes after a long chain of events in which the United States, by consistently appeasing the Peruvian military, was wrong. The appeasement has extended back for over a decade, during which the United States trained such Peruvian military leaders as Col. Gonalo Briceno at Fort Benning, Ga., only to have him batter down the presidential gates in Lima with Sherman tanks given Peru by the United States. The son of Admiral Guillermo Tirado Lamb, the minister who helped mastermind the revolution of 1962, graduated from Annapolis. Other military leaders trained either in the U.S. or under the American Army in the Panama Canal Zone. MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Keeping The Family Bus Clean Peruvian military to support us with the destroyers we had given them, they re1 fused. "Nevertheless," pointed out then Sen. we recognized this military Humphrey, regime and have supported them with aid." "Why? he was asked. "Because of the pressure of American business interests In Peru," Humphrey replied. "Secretary of State Rusk was opposed, Assistant Secretary Ed Martin was opposed, and Ambassador Jim Loeb lost his job because he was opposed. But American business interests, except for L. E. Stalker, president of all pressured the White House They were built up by the American military with the assumption that they for us to do business with the military. would combat communism, Actually they They got their way." have been the chief opponents of social The history of American bungling in change and, therefore, indirectly spawn-er- s regard to the operations of of communism. the Peruvian military goes back a long In the present crisis the military govway, including the shipment of American submarines to Peru at a time when Peru ernment has hastened to recognize Soviet Russia after a diplomatic break of was staging military maneuvers against 50 years, and rushed to negotiate a its neighbor, Ecuador, and at a time trade agreement in when Chile was also worried over the Peruvian military buildup. order to blackmail the United States. But the most important showdown Hubert Humphrey, recently vice president, hit the nail on the head when he came in the summer of 1962, when the Peruvian military were supposed to powas Senate majority leader after the Pelice national elections in which Victor ruvian military kicked out constitutionalRaul de la Torre came out ahead in the ly elected President Prado. balloting. "President Prado of Peru, he said, His party, the Apristas, represented "was the man who, one day after Pearl the Indian majority and would have Harbor, sent word to the United States ended the lavish special privileges do. to we what . wanted Peru asking the enjoyed by the Peruvian military "Yet the Peruvian army and navy, most lavish enjoyed by any army in which we had trained and supported, Latin America. Instead it favored land y Sears-Roebuc- k, high-hande- d Soviet-Peruvia- n reform and scaling down the huge Peruvian military budget. Fernando Belaunde Terry, the No. 2 candidate, was a who had promised the military to keep hands off their cushy status quo, continue to devote 38 per cent of the national budget 13 the armed forces, and give an automatic Senate seat to every two-stgeneral or rear admiral retiring at the age of 55 with 25 years of service. . This later job included a paid aide, paid secretary, and an air conditioned Cadillac. Victor Raul de la Torre had pledged to cut out all this military gravy, so the brass hats were willing to do al- By HARRY JONES If you didn't scrub down the family 33.6 times last year, you are not the Mr. Clean of the auto set. And if you did, you are only average! The only reason I know this is because a man came around our neighborhood asking questions the other day. It wasnt someone supporting the local sheriff bearing gifts like warrants for not paying parking tickets. He was making a survey for one of those automatic car wash enterprises. The guy was asking people out our way how many times they washed thrlr cars. He was seeing if Utah Is on a par with the rest of the nation when it comes to dunking the family car. "Would you tell me how often you wash the car, he asked me when I answered His ring. He told me about th 33.6 national average. "The average just went down," I said. bus O u r most anything to keep him from winning. the votes of two By manipulating strong Aprista provinces, Ancash and Cajamarca, Belaunde was declared President. Four years passed, and last fall President Belaunde negotiated an agreement with Standard Oil of New Jerseys subsidiary, International Petroleum Corp., for a reasonable takeover of its property i:. Peru. The oil company accepted the compromise. Whereupon, the Peruvian military kicked Belaunde out. rejected the compromise, and are now demanding that the oii company pay a trumped-u- p bill of $650 million past indebtedness incun ed in Peru. Unfortunately the Indian peons, who have bean suppressed by the military and the wealthy landowners for years, have now been whipped up to an frenzy. They will become more so once the Peruvian sugar quota is cut off. as required by law under the Hickcn-lcopfor many Indian Amendment, peons are employed on Peruvian sugar plantations. Thats tiie background of the showdown that was averted this week. er Citrus-si- x was bathed 2.8 times." Donna came out of the basement was hroom just then. "Who Is this? she asked. The gentle- man is making a survey to find out how often true blue Utahns wash I replied. "How do you rateT About like Benedict Arnold? Donna asked. And she was about right. "How can you wash a car 2.8 times ? their cars, the fellow asked. "Well, I washed It twice," said Donna. Then she pointed my way. "He was going to wash the car once, but hs quit eight tenths of the way through and sneaked off to the golf course. "Would it help the Utah average if I told you that our car has been washed five times already this year? I asked. Now we are getting someplace, h said the census taker, perking up. "How come you have washed your car more times this year already than all of last year? "Well, we had to go to a funeral and Donna didnt want the relatives to see how dirty the car could get out in Holla-da-y wet-was- I said. - That was the time we took it to the e car wash and forgot to roll up the back windows. We had to pick up two aged aunts and they got raids in their heads sitting on the damp cushions. The second time was when a water line broke and the car was just a couple of feet away. Actually, it was when I was three-minut- trying to install a watering system and lost the blueprints. The third time was when Bob Welti . called. He had predicted rain or 6now against every other prediction calling for fair and wanner weather. He begged me to wash the car and help him out I washed it just for him. And would you believe it? The next morning Bob was the hero of the weather ' circles, and I had dirty car again. Actually, the fourth time shouldn't count I filled the gasoline lawn mower at the service station, and he let me run it through his car wash. Its free for ' fill-up- s. But the fifth is the one I want to mention. Some kid knocked on the door and wanted to wash the car for a dollar. "I never have the car washed until it has a sign written in the grime that says I need washing or something like that, I said. Two minutes later, the kid knocks again. he said, and It needs washing, showed me the words he had written on the back of the car. Wit's r, kicked him out of office, using our Sherman tanks to do it And during the Cuban crisis last fall, when we asked the 7 OUR MAM JONES party-oldtim- er . well, Doesnt it worry you that you are . Cosmonaut No. 13? a reporter asks. Im not superstitious, he replies. But he admits that luck plays a role in space. "Yesterday our doctor fell through a glass door. If this happens to me today you can throw away your NEWS, Wednesday, April 9, 1969 4-- 5 M 4. ,V4 yt'i is Si .f "A 'V ' , ' f' : 14 - DESERET Ah, spring thing! End ... a mini splendored imiiiiiitumuiiimiiimnmimiiiifinmimmitiiniiitiiiiiiiuni BIG TALK r IS4Y"-- ' AN rSjp i ' ' If "Everyone wonts to do his share to eliminate bloodshed and violence. The Eeatles have discontinued live performances." from p No tot ttktn Vf Uontl V. McNotly tor tt Dostrtt Newr tooultr utiiy Baby ii.tNcUy tMtvra. |