Thanks for the chapterS. just caught up to the rest of the reader's. I was wondering it's 1972-ish at this moment of the story. so here are the events that are heralding in that year: - USSR still stands. - Vietnam us troops were withdrawn - Massacre at Olympic village in Munich - Berlin wall still stands. - one year before Walter Ulbricht, the head of the German Democratic Republic, dies in office on August 1 - Soviet Union and US sign SALT-1 arms control agreement, heralding the start of detente. - 4 more years before the US and USSR softening in tensions, the first cooperative Apollo-Soyuz mission is launched.