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While common folk have to wait as long as ten years for a private automobile, party officials are whisked around in chauffeur-driven black Volga sedans and Chaika limousines. A separate lane is reserved for them on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, a major Moscow artery. Those within the charmed circle are allotted spacious apartments and can loll about at weekend dachas in the countryside. They even have exclusive hospitals, where the care is far superior to that in ordinary institutions...
...sights and visit the Bolshoi and other Moscow theaters. The best place for stargazing was the cavernous marble lobby of the Kosmos Hotel, where Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov shuffled between round-table discussions and Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko appeared one morning in a bright red suit. Black Volga sedans and Chaika limousines waited outside the three designated hotels to ferry around the visiting VIPs, but many of the stars preferred to troop onto buses in a display of good comradeship...
...Soviet Foreign Ministry and the Soviet Academy of Sciences had invited the eleven-member delegation from the Council on Foreign Relations, an elite, Manhattan-based organization devoted to world affairs (see following story). As hosts, the Soviets agreed to assume the trip's costs. After being whisked about in Chaika limousines to meetings with Gorbachev and other leaders, the group was cautious but impressed. "The Soviets are much, much more open than when I negotiated with them in the past," said Henry Kissinger, who served as Secretary of State for Presidents Nixon and Ford. Concurred Harold Brown, Jimmy Carter...
...week's events unfolded, their worst fears seemed to be realized. Speeding from appointment to appointment through Moscow's wide streets in a black, chauffeur-driven Chaika limousine, Graham saw only what his hosts wanted him to see. Moreover, he seemed to say only what his hosts wanted him to say. At the end of a hectic schedule, which included a sermon at the only Baptist church in Moscow, a homily at the opulent Yelokhovsky Orthodox Cathedral, a speech at the conference (held in Moscow's World Trade Center) and a meeting with the six Pentecostalists taking...
...weeks billboards had gone up all over Moscow exalting the party as THE MIND, HONOR AND CONSCIENCE OF OUR EPOCH and trumpeting GLORY TO THE HEROES OF LABOR. Food supplies in Moscow stores and restaurants improved, red banners waved along the main thoroughfares, and fleets of ZIL and Chaika limousines roared down reserved lanes...