New Embassy in Moscow OKd
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WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators voted Tuesday to build a new embassy in Moscow to replace an unfinished one riddled with listening devices.
The agreement at a House-Senate conference ended a three-year stalemate by providing $100 million for the State Department to begin building a new structure beside the bugged one. No decision was made about about the building that has stood uncompleted since the bugs were discovered in 1985.
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