By JOHN MOSS __ The recovery of Zond-5 after It had flown around the moon and back is a magnificent achievement for Soviet scientists and puts them ahead of the meéricans’ Apollo project. The package of research re- Sults fished out of the Indian Ocean is vital for future flights. ture flights. A path has been pioneered for further return flights to the moon and, later, to the planets. he re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere of the spaceship af- ter its Seven-day flight was one Of the trickiest parts of the A new pavilion KOSMOS has whole operation since it was tra- velling at some 25,000 mph, compared with 18,000 mph of an orbiting craft, and injection into the atmosphere had to be accurate to within one degree. This was necessary to avoid it entering too steeply and burn- ing up in a spectacular, but use- less ball of fire, or skipping out of the atmosphere like a flat stone skimmed on a pond’s sur- face. Zond-5, with its scientific in- struments was recovered by a Soviet search vessel about 600 ‘miles south-east of Mauritius, below the equator. recently opened at the Moscow Exhibition of U.S.S.R. Economic Achievements. A 725 foot, three-stage Ooster rocket, installed in front of the pavilion is an exact copy of of the rocket that launched the spaceship “Vostok”, piloted by Yuri agarin, into orbit. It splashed down on Saturday at 5.08 p.m. and was picked up yesterday. Ocean landings were rehears- ed in the Pacific last May when two areas south of Christmas Island were roped ofl for a time. One was only 93 miles in dia- meter and the other a rectangle 250 by 70 miles. Vehicles launched 9,000 miles away were successfully recov- ered. The Supreme Soviet last week ratified the UN Astronaut As- sistance and Return Agreement which provides for the rescue of men and materials from other countries. : Last year, the Soviet Union reached agreement with the In- dian Government for the return of cosmonauts who land in In- dia, so the landing may well be the trail for the first Soviet- manned flight to the moon. Although other vehicles have flown nearer to the moon than Zond’s f,200 miles (Luna 14 last April orbited at distances vary- ing from 540 to 99 miles) this is the first time actual photographs may be recovered instead of them being sent back over long distances by a TV-like process. Soviet spacecraft were the first to hit the moon, the first to take pictures of its back side, the first to soft-land, the first to orbit it and now the first to re- urn from a flight round the moon. The recovery of Zond-5 after its journey around the moon was a great accomplishment, a spokesman for the National © Aeronautics and Space Adminis- tration (NASA) said in Wash- ington. If next month’s Apollo 7 three-man earth orbital flight goes well, the next objective would be to send three men around the moon and back on a voyage similar to that of Zond- 5: The successful splash-down makes it highly probable that a Russian will get a close-up look at the moon quite a long time before an American does, Sir Bernard Lovell, the director of Jodrell Bank said. “I think it is a very consider- able achievement and I expect that a human being will be plac- ed in a similar space craft in a matter of months.” The TASS (Soviet News Agen- cy) report of the flight said that Zond-5 followed a ballistic tra- , jectory during the initial part of the descent when it was backed by aerodynamic forces, but after this, a parachute system was used to bring it down in a soft landing.” This was the first time that a Soviet spacecraft has been brought back to earth outside the boundaries of the Soviet Union. “The systems for controlling the probe’s flight and the radio- technical means of measuring the parameters of its flight en- sured the solution of the set task,’”’ said TASS.'Morning Star) NATO and Bonn Is the Potsdam Agreement in which the U.S.S.R., Britain, France and the U.S.A. pledged the end of German militarism and nazism, which assured that, “Germany will never again threaten her neighbors or the peace of the world”, now a deadletter? This is the position which the U.S. and its NATO sate- lites, including Canada have taken in response to the Soviet warnings over the dangerous trend in West German politics. -In response to the Soviet charges, the West has gone further, in effect, to promise the out- right neo-nazis protection in their drive for power. Van Thadden and his ilk have had their road to political prominence paved by the poli- tics of revanchism which has been the corner- stone of the Bonn republic’s polities and stra- tegy since its creation. Led by the so-called respectable former nazis like Kurt Kiesinger, the threats and provocations have been buttres- sed and made more menacing by the rising eco- ne and military power of the Federal Repu- ic. No West German government has ever ac- cepted the outcome of the Second World War. They have never accepted the Oder-Niesse line, which forms the borders of Poland and Czecho- Slovakia. They have never renounced the Munich Pact which laid Czechoslovakia at Hitler’s feet. They have never accepted the existence of the German Democratic Republic, just as they have never recognized the status of West Berlin, which is not part of the Bonn Republic either geographically or politically. _. The attitude of the West German revanch- ists, has been from the inception of the Repub- lic, encouraged and in fact made more strident by NATO. The position of Canada, which was about the first NATO power to vote for the re- arming of Germany in the early days of the cold war, to its present insane policy of officially believing that there is no such country as the German Democratic Republic, has been, at the very least, treason to the memory of those who perished in the inferno of the last war. Events of the past month have illustrated just how uptight the men of Bonn are, as one dangerous provocation after another builds steadily on their macabre strategy of revenge. How else can one estimate the decision to hold the congress of the neo-nazis in West Berlin? Or the impending illegal meetings of almost all committees of the West German parliament? It is on this political background that the recent and impending manoeuvers of the West German army along the eastern borders must be viewed. The trend of development. both within the NATO alliance and in West Germany made it all the more necessary that Canada disassoci- ate itself from this aggressive alliance. Canada needs an independent foreign policy. It doesn’t have one today. Canada can only speak and act as a peace- maker in the world by declaring itself out of the entangling military alliances. banned. why did he have to pick on that one?” PACIFIC TRIBUNE+-SEPTEMBER 27, 1968—Page 3