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...York's shameless Senator disrupted delicate diplomacy by unsuccessfully trying to enter Lithuania without a Soviet visa. Was the Baltic ballet staged to make folks forget that he's mired in influence-peddling scandals...
...could resist the temptation? The ever solicitous Citibank dangled before me in the autumn mail an offer of a preapproved Visa card that would grant one frequent-flyer mile on American Airlines for each dollar charged. The lure of these two American obsessions -- credit and free travel -- proved irresistible, so I mailed the form and soon received cards for my wife and me. A month later, after we had rung up more than $4,200 in charges (about 20% of what would be needed for a free round-trip domestic ticket), my wife pulled out the card to purchase...
Although Citibank finally reopened my Visa credit line, it has not returned my wife's card. But it did mail me an R.S.V.P. certificate to apply for another Citibank-American Airlines frequent-flyer credit card. And this one offers a free round-trip companion plane ticket. Wonder if I should apply...
Despite some morning-after trepidation, the Lithuanians are determined to establish customs and visa procedures, print their own currency and even lease planes from state-owned Aeroflot to start a Lithuanian airline. If Gorbachev continues to demand an indemnity of some $34 billion for Soviet investment during the past five decades, the republic is prepared to submit a bill of its own for compensation for the 300,000 citizens that the Lithuanians claim were killed, imprisoned or exiled as the Soviets took control of their homeland and for economic mismanagement by the Kremlin. An equally contentious issue is what...
Besides, dissidents in the Soviet Union are used to paying for their freedom. A century ago, my grandparents had to buy their way out of Russia. More recently, the only way to emigrate has been to bribe an official for an exit visa...