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...addition, the Russians appear to have backed out of the race. Khrushchev has plainly stated that although the USSR will continue its moon program, it will proceed in the future at a much more leisurely pace. Recent developments within the Soviet Union such as the poor harvest make it likely that the Russians do indeed want to spend more money on improving their earthly existence and less on a race to escape...
...Fulbright summarized these views in Congress last week, nothing that the results of moon exploration "are remote and incalculable, and the need for schools and jobs is immediate and pressing." Finally the President of the Soviet National Academy of Sciences and other sources have made it clear that the USSR is not willing to enter the lunar contest. Thus the U.S. is faced with the prospect of an empty victory which may not be worth $20 billion...
...whether or not the U.S. and the USSR send a man to the moon together, the Kennedy administration must face up to the engineering and economic realities of Project Apollo: No American will reach the moon in 1969. Even if an American does reach the earth's satellite by 1971 or '72 the cost will surely be over $20 billion and the waste will have been enormous. Under the present arrangement Project Apollo is being run as Project Manhattan was during World War II. Waste is inevitable because the government does not have time to do things the right...
Aldoshin, who was a member of the disarmament conference last summer, and Vladimir Brykin, senior political advisor to the USSR mission to the United Nations, presented the official Soviet position on the major issues of the General Assembly's XVIIth session in a discussion sponsored by the international Relations Council...
...effect of our policy is to maximize the influence in Cuba of Communism and of the USSR. By cutting off from us, we force her to depend on Russia for trade, aid, and protection, and on the Communist world for examples. The more dependent is Cuba on Russia, the stronger is the position of Cuban Communists. In Cuba we have left the field to the Communists...