Soyuz 9 leaves questions unanswered
MOSCOW (UPI) A Soviet space commentator said the record breaking flight of Soyuz 9 may not have answered all the questions puzzling scientists about man's ability to endure prolonged periods in space.
His comments, more cautious than those of many other Soviet space analysts, came as cosmonauts Vitaly Sevastianov and Col. Andrian Nikolayev settled down in quarantine for post flight medical and psychological checkups.
the cosmonauts landed Friday after nearly 18 days of earth orbit, a record for space endurance.
The official Soviet news agency Tass said they arrived quietly at the "star city" of Soviet cosmonauts outside Moscow Saturday and commenced about 10 days of quarantine in a special germ free apartment.
Only a team of three doctors would be allowed to conduct the tests necessary to determine in detail how well they have survived their space experience, Tass said.
"The medics insisted that meetings with relatives and friends should be held to a minimum," the agency said. "In particular they prohibited handshakes."
Their aim of keeping the cosmonauts antiseptic had its human limits however. Both men kissed their wives and fondled their children in an emotional get together recorded by television crews.
The principal objective of the
Soyuz 9 was to test man's capability to live and work efficiently under conditions of weightlessness, free of the pulse fluctuations and weakenings of bone and muscle structure experienced by earlier spacemen.
"This problem has been given great attention since the original decision to send men into space," science commentator V. Pavlov said in an article printed in Pravda, the Communist party paper.
"Many positive results have
been collected, but nonetheless one cannot state that the problems of weightlessness have been completely studied," he said in a review of space exploration through Soyuz 9.
"With the increase in duration of space flights, the following factors have been added to the problem of weightlessness—long isolation limitations of movement, psychological strain and the possibility of infections from microorganisms inside the spaceship."
Air Force deploys MIRVs
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Multiple nuclear warheads have been placed for the first time on some of America's intercontinental missiles, the Air Force has indicated.
Ten Minuteman ICBMs were the first to receive the multiple warheads at Minot, N.D., an announcement said.
Plans to deploy the MIRV (multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles) missiles this month were announced last June 10, but have been criticized as a possible blow to the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks at Vienna.
The Air Force announcement recalled that Air Force Secretary Robert C. Seamans Jr. said in March "we will start fielding the Minuteman III in June." The "III" is designed for the multiple warheads.
"We can now say that the Strategic Air Command has assumed responsibility for the first flight of the missiles at Minot AFB, N.D." the announcement said.
"The first flight consists of 10 missiles and one launch control facility."
Although this was not saying directly that the multiple warheads were aboard, Pentagon
Adviser critic resigns following sharp attack
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Nixon administration's most outspoken advocate of import restrictions, Assistant Commerce Secretary Kenneth N. Davis Jr., was removed from office following a sharp public attack on three White House advisers.
Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans issued a two-paragraph statement accepting Davis' resignation less than 24 hours after Davis said President Nixon was getting bad advice on legislation to limit imports of textiles and shoes.
"Mr. Davis chose to express his own personal views in New York yesterday on matters relating to certain United States policies and the resolution of some questions of international trade," Stans said. "His views do not represent my own or those of the Department of Commerce."
Davis, a former treasurer of International Business Machines Corp., was assistant secretary for domestic and international business. There had been no prior indication that he planned to resign.
Salk to wed Picasso's ex-mistress
LA JOLLA, Calif. (UPI)—Dr. Jonas E. Salk, developer of the first polio vaccine, will marry Francoise Gulot, former mistress of Pablo Picasso, in Paris July 9. A spokesman at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies here said they would divide their time between La Jolla and Paris following their marriage.
It will be the second marriage for Salk, whose divorce from his wife of 30 years was final in 1969.
Salk is founder and director of the Salk Institute, formed here in 1962. Miss Gulot is the author of the book, "My Life With Picasso."
Salk, 55, gained international acclaim in 1955 when he developed the first effective vaccine against polio. Until that year approximately 28,000 cases of polio were reported a year. Now about 50 a year are reported.
10 KANSAN June 23 1970
Stans said Davis "informed me last week of his decision to leave his position of assistant secretary of commerce at an early date. I agreed with his decision."
Davis, in a speech to a management research meeting in New York said White House aides Henry A. Kissinger and Peter Flanigan and chairman Paul W. McCracken of the Council of Economic Advisers were doing a "disservice" to Nixon by advising opposition to the import control bill.
The measure, drawn up by Chairman Wilbur Mills, (D-Ark.) of the House Ways and Means Committee, would restrict imports of apparel textiles and shoes. It is aimed at stopping a flood of low cost imports from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
sources said the missiles could not have reached this stage in their deployment without their being ready to fire.
The one designed for the Minuteman III carries three nuclear warheads, each equal to about 250,000 tons of TNT or more than 10 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb.
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