SOVIET UNION: Lapel Diplomacy

As he and his wife were leaving Moscow's avant-garde Taganka Theater one night last week, Robie M.H. Palmer, a U.S. Embassy second secretary, ran into an unexpected performance on the street. Three middle-aged men blocked his path. "How would you like to be treated the way Zionist thugs treat our diplomats in America?" one of them demanded. "How would you like to have your car destroyed by demonstrators who are not under control?" When Palmer turned and tried to get into his car, one of the men seized him by the lapels....

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