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When the U.S. issues a travel advisory, it is usually to keep Americans from getting caught in war zones. Last week the State Department took the unusual step of warning U.S. citizens to stay out of Leningrad. It is one of the most popular tourist destinations and the home of the Hermitage art museum. The State Department said Americans may be subjected to "unlawful, arbitrary and unjustifiably embarrassing" behavior. The move came after an off-duty U.S. Marine consulate guard was beaten by six men and then arrested as he walked to the consulate at about...
...apparently unrelated incident last week, half a dozen Soviet policemen beat up an off-duty U.S. Marine attached to the American consulate in Leningrad. He was not seriously injured, but it was not the first such incident this year. In April, an unidentified youth attacked a U.S. consular officer on the street. Administration officials said last week that they were becoming annoyed at the "disturbing pattern of official involvement in a campaign to harass and isolate Americans in the Soviet Union...
...Correspondent William Stewart, who interviewed State Department officials, retired Ambassadors to Moscow and Kremlinologists, went to Associate Editor John Kohan, who wrote the main story. Says Kohan, who speaks fluent Russian and has visited the Soviet Union six times: "It's hard to remember, from my days in Leningrad as a student during detente, that the Russians once spoke confidently about good relations with...
...bizarre behavior that men have exhibited in the White House?during the last days of the Nixon Administration, for example, or during the time when Lyndon Johnson was beleaguered there. Why be concerned that a woman might, in the throes of some monthly lunacy, want to nuke Leningrad? Of more concern might be a man in the White House with six stiff Scotches in him. The so-called premenstrual syndrome (depression, anger, in some rare cases, violence, around the time of menstruation) has been used successfully as a defense in a couple of murder trials in England, and that reawakened...
...same time, Soviet ships seemed to be more visible in the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea and even the Caribbean (see map). The cruiser Leningrad was reported to have left Cuba in company with other Soviet vessels, their destination unknown. Although early reports that Soviet ships were conducting auxiliary exercises in oceans other than the North Atlantic seemed to be incorrect, just tracking the global movements of Moscow's fleet created headaches for the U.S. Navy. For the second time in twelve days, the game of "chicken at sea" that skippers from both superpowers frequently play...