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ROAD TRIP When the workweek is over, Bishkek's better-heeled hit the road for the twisty four-hour drive to Issyk-Kul, a 170 km-long lake in the mountains of northeastern Kyrgyzstan. In Soviet times, despite being the site of secret torpedo tests, Issyk-Kul was a famed R. and R. spot for party cadres in search of pampering at the area's plush hotels and sanitoriums...
...Passing on Issyk-Kul's Soviet-era resorts, we opted to rent rooms with a local family for a few dollars. Besides, Aidai pointed out, why shell out for hotel rooms when we'd be out all night? Come evening, Aidai took me on the local disco crawl. Consisting of tracksuited Slavic youths throbbing to Russian and Turkish pop, the scene was not exactly sophisticated. One place offered little more than loudspeakers on an outdoor basketball court and a projector showing Britney Spears videos in reverse. Luckily, the cheap Moldovan wine flowed copiously...
Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and former Special Counsel and Adviser to President Kennedy Theodore Sorensen charmed the packed crowd with their frank recounting of the 1962 nuclear face-off between the U.S. and Soviet Union...
McNamara looked delighted with the Hollywood version of his argument with Admiral George Anderson in which he shouted not to open fire on Soviet ships approaching the American naval quarantine...
McNamara said Soviet submarines armed with nuclear warheads had lost communication with Moscow and lurked in waters near the U.S. for four days after the crisis was resolved...