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• April 22 -- Crack U.S. counter-intelligence agents in Moscow begin to suspect that the new U.
  S. Embassy in Moscow, constructed by Soviet labor, might be bugged, when one of them sneezes in the ambassador's office and six chairs say, "Gesundheit....
• The hotel [in Kiev] checked us in very quickly. Unlike the one in Moscow, the door guard smiled, did not check our passes and did not wear a gun.
  The hotel serves excellent country food for lunch, including dumpling soup, pork and homemade ice cream....
• of the many who beseech the Goddess to send them love, so few will accept it when it comes, because it has come in what they consider the wrong shape, or the wrong size, or at the wrong time.
  Against our prejudices, even the Goddess strives in vain. -- Diane Duane, DOOR INTO FIRE...
• SAGDEEV CALLED ON THE U.S. TO MAKE A RECIPROCAL GESTURE
  In a recent speech in London, the irrepressible former head of the Soviet Space Research Institute noted that the Soviet Government has offered to convert its gigantic Krasnoyarsk radar in Siberia into an international space research facility in response to U....
• ALIEN INVASION IMMINENT It now known that an alien species has been watching this planet for several years now.
  They have sent their scouts ahead, who have infiltrated much of the civilised world....
• The Russian soldier is our friend. He is here to protect us.
  -- First sentence in an English textbook -- seen in Bulgaria (printed in Moscow) (c.a. 1967)....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• Reporter: Uh, question for the barbeque chef. Don't you think there is an inherent danger in sending underqualified civilians into space?
  Homer: I'll field this one. The only danger is if they send us to [ominous] that terrible Planet of the Apes....
• Many of us spend half our life wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
  -- Alexander Woollco...