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PETYA and I were walking near St. Isaac's Cathedral, through the dark, the drizzle and the streaked neon glare of Leningrad, discussing my girlfriend. We were interrupted by a policeman. My down jacket had betrayed me--I was a foreigner, an alien. Petya was implicated for associating with me, and all three of us knew it. Petya, a Russian, had left his papers at home. The policeman's eyes narrowed when he heard it. He searched Petya's pockets and found a Finnish coin about the size of a dime, but not quite as valuable. It surprised me that...
...expired Nebraska driver's license, Omaha Public Library card, Harvard I.D., and my Cool Cash 24-hour teller card to prove my identity. He grunted knowingly upon receiving each one, convinced by the power of the color pictures and strange language that I was a Finn and in Leningrad only to drink. ("Drunk Finns" make the pilgrimage to escape Finnish liquor taxes and dry laws...
After ten minutes of waiting for them to determine if Petya had permission to live in Leningrad, I left him to his fate. The officer demanded a bribe to prevent the police from notifying University officials of his suspicious involvement with an alien, but Petya got off without paying. He left the station about three hours later. I went straight home...
Dershowitz, who defended a group of 11 Soviet human rights activists in the 1974 "Leningrad trials" after they tried to leave the Soviet Union by hijacking a plane, said he will ask the Soviet government for permission to attend the trial of a group of scientists who have been in prision since last November without being charged...
There was a long queue last week at the bread shop on Leningrad's Nevsky Prospekt. "They are selling special holiday loaves," explained a woman in line, as she stamped her feet against the cold. Yes, she knew about the U.S. grain embargo, imposed a year ago this week. "But it hasn't affected us," she insisted...