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After customs we were transported to Hotel Intourist in the heart of Moscow. After checking in, and eating dinner, we walked to Red Square to telephone refuseniks, and make plans for the following...
...morning on Tuesday, my Intourist escort promptly picked me up at the hotel and drove me to the train station. By then, the thrill of being a stranger land had dissipated...
...INTOURIST, the "Soviet travel agency, shuttles its Western patrons from the S.M. Kirov Theatre of Opera and Ballet to the Leningrad State Circus. These organized tours will also insure that you saunter through the resplendent gardens of the Winter and Summer Palaces. And don't miss Hotel Leningrad's dinner menu; it boasts an infinite list of succulent foods and wines...
...adventure" was to last only four days, and because of the brevity of my visit, I chose to bypass the sights which Intourist strongly recommended. I never did purchase a ballet or circus ticket, and I walked past the opulent department store--for those with Western currency only, thank you--on Nevsky Prospekt, Leningrad's business district...
...Alexander Suvorov had been "wrecked" the day before with "loss of life." The Kremlin also announced that First Deputy Premier and Politburo Member Geidar Aliyev was leading a commission to investigate the accident. The statement did not give any casualty figures. The following day, however, a representative from Intourist, the state travel agency, provided a few unofficial details. He speculated that the ship's pilot may have steered the boat off course or misjudged how much room he had to maneuver because the water level of the Volga was higher than usual. The official put the death toll...