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...They are a major cause of Russia's alarmingly high accident rate. The bad roads also make for ridiculously low-speed cross-country travels. According to Moscow's Economic Gazette, the average speed of autos in Russia last year was 18 m.p.h. "Our great-grandfathers traveled by troika from St. Petersburg to Moscow at about the same speed 200 years ago," commented the Gazette. The Soviet weekly further noted that seat belts are nonexistent, because Soviet light industry has yet to devise a buckle that works. There are also hardly any lane markings on the roads, because...
Tass soon announced that Soyuz 9 was a "solitary" flight, stifling rumors that there would be an attempt to link the craft with another to form a space station (one of the unattained goals of last fall's orbital troika). But in a Pravda article, the designer of Soyuz revealed that the flight would test systems "that will be used in future spaceships and orbital stations...
Publicly at least, the Cambodians insist that they do not want the South Vietnamese roaming around their country indefinitely. Cambodia's Deputy Premier Prince Sirik Matak, who with Premier Lon Nol and Foreign Minister Yem Sambour formed the troika that ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk, told TIME Correspondent Louis Kraar: "After the sanctuaries are destroyed and after the end of June, we do not want foreign troops on our soil. It will be our task to chase the Communists away...
...then, the Soviets may be orbiting comparable bases of their own. Last week's Soyuz shots showed that the Russians are already capable of rapidly lofting the huge amounts of equipment required for building in space. For their space troika, the Soviets needed several firing and mission-control centers, a complex three-way communications setup and three separate launch pads. NASA officials confessed that the U.S. would be hard-pressed to match the Soviet feat, since it lacks such vast ground facilities...
Even as the Soviet troika circled the earth, the U.S. was busily preparing a space spectacular of its own. On the morning of Nov. 14, only 117 days after man's conquest of the moon, the eyes of the world will again be focused on Cape Kennedy's pad 39A. Though the flight of Apollo 12 may seem like history relived, the second American effort to land men on the moon should be almost as dramatic as its predecessor. It will demand every bit as much daring from its all-Navy crew...