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an ultimatum.
That, said Krushchey, was

why the impression had
grown in the Soviet Union
that the U.S. did not want to
reach agreement with the
USSR: He said he believed in
the sincerity of President Kis-
enhower and Harold E. Stas-
sen, but there were some
people in the U.S, — “your
secretary of state,” for ex-

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1957

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i
ite, Published in a Soviet magazine last year,
‘embled from parts of rockets. Over the past two or three

“arried many articles dealing with problems

°ome very popular with Soviet readers,

ample — who did not want to
reach agreement.

Krushchev gave as his defi-
nition of what would consti-
tute the basis for a “reason-

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tion such as Soviet scientists hope to es-

ast week in launching the first earth satel-

it. was described as a big cylinder as-

years Soviet journals, have

of space travel. Science fiction too, has be-

The United States must recogn
the Soviet Union as an equal. This is
tary, said in an interview at Moscow th

as though it were strong and the Soviet Union weak, o

ize the facts of coexistence and be prepared to treat
what Nikita Krushchev, Soviet Communist party secre-
is week. He added that the U.S. had consistently acted

ffering its proposals in the nature, of

USSR far advanced
in moon flight plan

Soviet scientists are far advanced in their plans to reach
the moon, a meah 238,857 miles from the earth. Their time-
table calls for space flights to the moon by 1965 and to Mars
and Venus by 1970. But they may be ready to send a space ship
to the moon within the next two years.

Their success in launching
the first earth satellite —
“with no failures’ — and the
information relayed to them
by the satellite’s instruments
will enable them to make still
greater advances toward the
ultimate goal of interplane-
tary travel in manned space
ships, :

What yesterday was. still
regarded as a fantasy of
science fiction has become the
realizable dream of science.

As reported by the Pacific

WHAT THEY SAY:

Tribune over the past two
years, the Soviet Union has
been conducting intensive re-
search into the upper atmos-
phere through a_ program
headed by geophysicist Yev-
geni Federov, sending animals
aloft in rockets. And there
are reports now that the sec-
ond satellite the Soviet Union
is expected to launch “in the
near future’ — perhaps at the
time of the November 7 cele-
brations — may also carry
live animals.

‘Most significant single
achievement of century

Comments on the launching of the earth satellite ranged
this week from frank admiration for the Soviet achievement
from some Western scientists to derisory hoots from the mili-
tary lunatic fringe —' some of them in high places.

Typical of the lat'er was the remark made by Rear Ad-

miral Rawson Bennett, chief
of U.S. naval operations, in
an NBC interview, that the
satellite was just a “hunk of
iron almost anybody could
Jaunch.”

By contrast, A. H. Zimmer-
man, chairman of the Cana-
dian Defense Research Board,
said: “This is a very great sci-
entific and technical achieve-
ment and the Russians should
be congratulated.”

Ag usual, Igor Gouzenko,
renegade Soviet cipher clerk,
tried to get into the limelight
by charging that “Soviet spies
must have infiltrated the U.S,

missiles production system”
and stolen secrets. ;
And’ the Vancouver Flyin,
Saucer Club, looking down its
collective nose, found the sat-
ellite “interesting” but “its
method of propulsion is obso-
lete.” :
Most people, however, tend-
ed to assess the Soviet satel-
lite as did- Hugh Odishaw,
director of the U.S. Interna-
tional Geophysical Year Com-
mittee, who described it as
the “most significant single
achievement of the century
bar none. Atomic energy is a
poor second,

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