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...time she packed up for the final time last week and flew back to Moscow, Katerina Lycheva, 11, was so gorged on Americana that even a child of capitalism might have had a tummyache. On her fifth and final stop in Los Angeles, Katya made forays to Disneyland and Universal Studios, where , respectively she collected the standard Mouseketeer ears and mugged for the camera in the huge paw and maw of King Kong. At one point Katya seemed to have gone Hollywood, donning a pair of sunglasses and telling students, "I want to be a film director." In fact...
Greeted with flowers at Chicago's O'Hare airport, Katerina ("Katya") Lycheva, 11, smiled and said in her careful English, "I am very glad to see you, and I think we will be friends." For the next two weeks, Katya's mission is to meet American children "and tell them as much as I can about the Soviet Union." Sponsored by the San Francisco-based Children of the Peacemakers, her visit was inspired by a similar 1983 trip to the U.S.S.R. by Maine Schoolgirl Samantha Smith, who died last summer in a plane crash and has become a hero...
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