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...warning enough, the crew of Mir risked the ire of animal rights activists Monday -- or rather, amphibian and mollusk rights -- when their latest cargo came in. For the newest residents of the Russian space station are 15 two-year-old Oriental newts, and ?about? 80 snails -- Mir biologist Georgy Samarin being unsure of the precise number of gastropod cosmonauts...
...Letter. Lomakin took over the telling of the tale. "Suddenly," he said, "she didn't arrive at the boat." Then he let slip the fact that two other teachers were on the loose: "At the same time they didn't come either on the boat Mikhail Ivanovitch Samarin, teacher of mathematics, and his wife, teacher of Russian languages...
...this excited verbiage led naturally to a question: What had really happened? Nobody, including Countess Tolstoy, seemed to know. The next day the Countess mused dourly that the woman might have been a Red spy. And the case was complicated by the fact that Mathematics Teacher Samarin dramatically turned himself over to the FBI. This week no less a person than Russian Ambassador Panyushkin asked that Samarin be returned forthwith...
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