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...cold war as an economic resource. The U.S. and the former Soviet Union muscled each other through African proxies, pouring in money to prop up pro-Western or pro-Communist surrogates. Now the big powers' priorities have gone elsewhere. Russia's most prominent expert on African economies, Sergei Shatalov, devotes his attention to his own country's debt problems. Europe's available investment capital is being diverted to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states...
...remarkable recovery was a triumph for the Soviet space program. One concern that has clouded plans for a manned mission to Mars is the fear that cosmonauts' health would deteriorate badly in the extended weightlessness of the 30-month round-trip voyage. "Now," says Cosmonaut Training Commander Vladimir Shatalov, "we are sure that it is possible to complete such a mission...
Russian Reassurances. As preparations for the mission continued, some American officials were still worried over the failure of the latest Soyuz flight (TIME, April 21). The Russians sought to reassure them. Referring to the Soyuz's emergency landing near the Chinese border, Major General Vladimir Shatalov, chief of cosmonaut training, said: "Of course, no one would have conducted such a test on purpose. But the flight did help confirm the Soyuz spaceship's full potentialities-in particular, the ability to save crewmen's lives in an extraordinary situation." That may indeed be true...
...where all manned flights begin and end, including training, medical preparations and postflight debriefings. "All of us [cosmonauts] started from Star City," recalled Shatalov, a veteran of three orbital missions...
Americans will soon participate in those activities. Rising along the banks of a pretty artificial lake are quarters that will be occupied by U.S. astronauts when they come to Star City to train with their Soviet counterparts for the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz linkup. Shatalov thinks that the Americans will like their surroundings. "This is a healthful, quiet and serious place for training," he said. Then, he added, amiably, "just like Houston...