News of the Day No 43

Spacecraft launches: Soyuz-6 with cosmonauts GS Shonin, VN Kubasov on board, Soyuz-7 with cosmonauts VN Volkov, AV Filipchenko, VV Gorbatko; Soyuz-8 with cosmonauts V. A. Shatalov, A. S. Eliseev. Soviet-Vietnamese talks in the Kremlin. The negotiations involved: Leonid Brezhnev, A. Kosygin, Pham Van Dong and others. The signing of the Agreement on the provision of free economic and military assistance to Vietnam by the Soviet Union. Construction of two new units at the Saratov hydroelectric power station. East Germany, Berlin. Inaugural meeting dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the formation of the German Democratic Republic. Speakers: V. Ulbricht, Leonid Brezhnev. Solemn procession of youth through the streets of Berlin, with portraits of K. Marx and F. Engels.

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