Students’ Visit to Soviet Union
The content of the story on the visit of a group of young Americans to Russia was appalling! These young people, abetted by their elders, seemed to take pleasure in breaking the rules of traveling in Russia by (1) selling objects illegally on a train en route to Moscow and then (2) by smuggling in clothes by a ruse for donation to Russian Jewish charity.
Small wonder that Russian officials may look with justified scrutiny at future American tourists when they read of these sorts of shenanigans.
DONALD K. SMITH
San Francisco
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