Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: From Nixon to Carter (1969-1980) - US/USSR handshakes, 1975

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American and Soviet astronauts Thomas Stafford and Alexei Leonov's symbolic handshake, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's untimely intervention about the realities of the USSR.

Published on Friday, 18th July 1975.

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