Word: intourist
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...newlyweds gave no sign that they were troubled by the speculation. After a couple of quiet days in the Moscow Intourist hotel, they prepared to depart for a Siberian honeymoon at Lake Baikal and the town of Magadan, the site of several Stalin-era prison camps. Afterward, the couple will share a 2½-room flat with Sergei's mother until they buy an apartment of their own. Christina says that she will assume the quiet life of a Russian housewife and start a family. "I don't know why reporters want to find out something spectacular about...
...sent on business. When the Soviet government got wind of the romance, it is said, Kauzov was called home and fired. Later, Kauzov, who has a glass eye from a childhood accident, began supporting himself as an English tutor. When TIME's Moscow correspondent called Christina at the Intourist Hotel, she said firmly: "I have never talked to reporters, and I am not going...
...czars; after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the Communists called their secret police, successively, the CHEKA, GPU, OGPU, GUCB/NKVD and MGB, the KGB'S forerunner. Today the agency has a force of 300,000 men under arms to guard Soviet borders, as well as a corps of customs agents. Intourist too works closely with the KGB; tourist guides can steer chosen visitors to restaurants that have hidden microphones...
...Parliament. In Commons, Courtney seized on the dangers of Soviet spying as one of his big issues. That irritated the KGB. Before he came up for reelection, the KGB reached into its files and produced a 1961 photo showing Courtney in compromising positions with a comely, blonde, hazel-eyed Intourist guide named Zina, a "swallow" he had met on a business trip to Moscow following the death of his first wife. The photos were widely distributed and Courtney soon lost his second wife, his business and his seat in Parliament. He is now remarried and running a touch-typing school...
Parchamovsky's case was closed. But so, too, is the Soviet rent-a-car system, which was started by Nikita Khrushchev after his 1959 visit to the U.S. Foreign tourists may still rent cars for hard currency through Intourist, the official Soviet travel agency. But the domestic rent-a-car garages have gradually been phased out. Parchamovsky's account of his plight in Izvestia was, at least in part, an officially sanctioned attempt to persuade Russians that they are better off without such modern nuisances...