Outside the U.S. embassy building in Moscow last week, a redheaded girl sat dejectedly on a metal railing. A Soviet dissident? An American with passport problems? Hardly. It was Amy Carter, 17, daughter of former President Jimmy Carter, on a tour with a group of 150 Americans. Earlier, she and four friends, having heard about the cheeseburgers and French fries served at the embassy's snack bar, had arrived to have lunch. "They wouldn't let us in," Amy said. The snack bar, it seems, is open only to permanent members of Moscow's American community who purchase chits. Had Amy identified herself as...
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