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A Flying Visit

■ I cheated on this visit to Moscow by staying in an American Biosphere, the Slavyanskaya Hotel, which translates into English as the Radisson. The hotel was not fully operational—room service, for instance, was not yet available—but the standard of the rooms, the restaurants, the elevators, the CNN, and the plumbing was roughly mid American. And because the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe had just been in town, there were even direct telephone lines to the U.S.A. It was as good as being in Gary, Indiana.

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A Flying Visit

■ I cheated on this visit to Moscow by staying in an American Biosphere, the Slavyanskaya Hotel, which translates into English as the Radisson. The hotel was not fully operational—room service, for instance, was not yet available—but the standard of the rooms, the restaurants, the elevators, the CNN, and the plumbing was roughly mid American. And because the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe had just been in town, there were even direct telephone lines to the U.S.A. It was as good as being in Gary, Indiana.