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Soyuz 7. carrying Anatoly Filipchenko, Vliadslav Volkov and Viktor Gorbatko, landed Friday morning just 15 miles from where Soyuz 6 was brought down Thursday. Official announcements have proclaimed the flights of Soyuz 6 and 7 as "complete successes" but the only new feat reported to the world so far was experimental welding inside Soyuz...
Released Piecemeal? Last week the passing of another general, G. Volkov, continued to provoke conjecture, fanciful as it seemed, about some sort of vast cabal. One rumor was that the generals had died together, either in a rocket accident or an airplane crash, and the death notices were being released piecemeal to hush up the tragedy. Another speculation, fed by the fact that this year's May Day parade in Moscow was predominantly a civilian show, was that the military had attempted a putsch and failed. The ringleaders were quietly executed, so this tale went, and the unreliable Soviet...
...obituaries, the Soviet army newspaper did say that nine in the fallen constellation of red stars had died "tragically." This is official jargon for accidental death, and it reinforced the disaster rumor. But the other officers, many on the retired list, were reported to have died of natural causes. Volkov, a retired air force technical expert, was 70 years old. General Mar-ikyan Popov, a staff officer in the Ministry of Defense, was 67 at the time of his death and General Penkovsky, 65. Despite the twelve deaths in 17 days, overall the mortality has been steady: 46 have died...
...Leon Volkov, a former colonel in the Soviet air force, Marek St. Korowicz, former Polish delegate to the United Nations, Leslie Tater, Hungarian television writer, and Stoyan Gavritovitch, former Yugoslav undersecretary of state, will also be on the program...
Last week a two-paragraph item in Pravda reported that Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich, at his own request, had resigned his post as labor boss of Russia. His successor is Alexander Petrovich Volkov, chairman of the rubber-stamp Council of the Union, and a man so little known that the latest edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia does not even list...