Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-19
SPACEMEN
10000 Muscovites
Cheer Their Heroes

coSmonauts, made the 15-mile
drive from the airport in a
flower-covered convertible.
Traffic throughout the city
was disrupted as roads were
roped off to assure passage of
the throngS from every factor,
school and shop in town march,
ing to the square.
And riding on the glory train
was NataSha, the blond g.
year-old daughter of 1t. Col.
Pcpovich. She stood with Mr..
Khrushchev on the welcoming
stand at the airport and
mounted to the topmost van
tage point with the country's
leaders on Lenin's tomb. There
she waved happily as if she too
had girdled the earth.
Before Mr.. Khrushchev
spoke, Maj. Nikolayev briefly
addressed the crowd. declaring:
Our planet is exceptionally
beautiful. 1t looks wonderful
from the height of outer space.
We must do everything possible
to prevent it ever becoming an
area of devastating war. The
earth must be a peaceful,
flourishing planet"
Both cosmonauts took cracks
at the West.
Maj. Nikolayev; Our space
ships serve the interests of
science, the cause of CONSOLE
dating world peace. The group
flight in outer space is still one
more vivid proof of the supe-
riority of socialism over CAPT.
taliSm."
1t. Col. Popovich: ut is
pleasant to realize that our
flights into space pursue scien-
tific aims and meet the inter-
eSts of all mankind across
the ocean the enemies of peace
are tanning war hysteria, striv-
ing to turn the expanses of
space into an atomic testing
ground"
Khrushchev Repeats Line
Their speeches were ap- !
plauded and so was the speech |
of Mr.. Khrushchev, which was
given over largely to lauding |
the Socialist (Communist) SyS-
tenn as being responsible for |
sending aStronautS into long |
orbit ahead of other nations.
Mr.. Khrushchev repeated |
what he had often said before,
that he wanted to draw a line |
under the last world war, and |
proposed to the West to do it |
by converting West Berlin into
a free city and pulling out all
occupation troops.
To the answer of the West,
that Western troops are neces-
sary to protect West BerlinerS
from the pressure of surround
ing Communist territory in
East Germany, Mr.. Khrushchev
insisted that nobody is threat
ening to change their way of
life.
1--WE consider that an absurd
argument, he said.
He said any guarantees must
be provided in the signing of
a peace treaty.
NATO Bloc AssaiIed
IF that is not sufficient, we
will agree to the temporary
presence in West Berlin of |
troops under the U. N. flag"
he said. But we cannot agree |
that these troops should be
troops of members of the ag-
greSSive NATO block, a bloc
created for war against the
Socialist states"
He said the Soviet Union
would not stop its efforts and
declared its proposals were the
only sensible ones.
Only madmen can object to
cur peaceful proposals." he said.
Lacking a settlement with
the West, he said, the Soviet
Union would proceed with sign
ing of peace treaty land on
that basis the occupation re-
gime loses its force"
Tass said more than 10000
MuscoviteS took part in the
welcome.
The proceedings were broad
cast by TV and radio.
A model of a spaceShip rising
over the ancient square was
described by the Soviet news
agency as "a symbol of the
new triumph of reason and
courage of the Soviet people"
"Space-peace," was among
the shouts from the crowd.
Glory to the heroes of outer
space"
The two landed their ships
Wednesday in the hill and des-
ert country of Kazakhstan after
flights for which the Russians
announced these statistics:
Maj. Nikolayev: More than
"a orbits, 95 hours of flight,
1.6 million miles of travel in
Vostok III.
1t. Col. Popovich: More than
48 orbits, II hours Of flight,