Page Eight THE SUMMER DAILY Saturday, August 1], 1973 Fe w Russians touring in U. S. By JAMES R. PEIPERT Associated Press Writer MOSCOW '' - American tour- ists are flacking in again this year, trantping arond the Freni- lh these wirm, spring days in Swhite sh:>os 'ad stat -pressed clthes. Bttt the t(triris t in the siot- er directirn is stti onty a trick- le. t)espite the government's warming op towards the West, it probhly will be a long time be- fore hsloads of camersI-toting So iel tonrists become part of the crowds at the Washington monument or D isneyland. ACCORDING TO the state tra- vel agency, Intourist, 66,164 Americans came to Russia as tourists in 1972, and Intourist officials are hoping for more this year. Only 340 Soviets, however, made tourist trips to the United States during the same year. All went with extremely restricted groups and most "for reasons that serve the national interests rather than an individual purpose," says U.S. consular officers. The picture this year looks much the same. The U.S. Embas- sy and American Express, which arranges all Soviet tourist journ- eys to America, report no more than 100 Soviet "tourists" for the first five months of 1973. "THE CONCLUSION we can draw," remarked one consular officer, "is that there will be no shar incre ise this year in Soviet tourism to America -' The controled press is present- ing a less hiased vies of the United States these dOss since Communist party chief Leonid Brezhnev's visit to Washington, line 18-21. But this does not mean more Soviets will get to see for themselves the bulwark of capitalism. Soviet authorities are apparent- ly still far from convinced that citizens who go abroad as tourists will always be willing to return home. And if they do, the authori- ties reason, there's no telling what oort of "subversive" no- tions they might bring hack with them. HE REFUSED to concede, at first, that ideology may be a hindrance. But when pressed he confided: "Look, you don't remember those dark days of the 1950s. I do. Nobody was going abroad then. Now we have several mil- lion people loyal enough to travel abroad." Proof of loyalty as a prerequis- AMERICAN TOURISTS flock to Moscow to see such attractions as the Georgian state dance company of Tiflis. However, Russian tourism in the U.S. is a mere trickle. - - DIA NAROSS S BILLIE HOLIDAY 7Np.m.S THE BLUES Filmed in PANAVIiON' In COLOR APAPARAOUN-T PICTU PLUS! ite for foreign travel requires de- tailed questionnaires listing a I places of residence and employ- ment, character references from party committees and employers, a thorough medical examination, and an all-important nterview at the party's central committee in Moscow. It takes weeks of scurrying from one bureaucrat to the next, followed by a period of anxious waiting. Sometimes passports are not issued until tourists get to the airport and they cannot be sure until then that they will ac- tually make the trip. LAST YEAR, for example, 89 person" were apparently dropped in the final stages of the screen- ing process. The U.S. Embassy said it issued 429 tourist visas, but American Express said it processed only 340 Soviet tourists. "The weeding-out process is all very formalized," said a U.S. consular officer, "and you have no people slipping in as casual tourists." Soviet citizens do go to Amer- ica, however, for nontourist pur- poses. The embassy said it issued about 4,500 visas in 1972 to mem- bers of official Soviet delegations -in such fields as trade, science, space and sports. Another 969 Soviets got visas to vi tives in America. EVEN COUNTING thes is a drastic imbalancec between the two countrie is one of the factors t among Russians a deepc about and ignorance of t ed States. The right of Americans el is a topic frequently up by Russians to Americ es at a U.S. exchange ;x tourism and leisure, whit ed in May in Moscow for long tour of six Soviet ci "It boggles their mind one of the 22 Russian-s guides, that Americans+ a passport in a few day: no exit visa is needed t the country, that America ers between Canada and are open, and that 'he U ernment places few res on foreign travel by its Very stringent procedu ply here even if a Russia only a neighboring Co country. "I'M A SOCIALIST an lieve in the system,"a Russian once confided. bothers me that I can't on a plane and go to, s don or Paris." American Express, whi lowed- to operate in Mo and FILMWAYS, INC. present 9:30 p.m.JACK LEMMON in A MARTIN RANSOHOF Production "SAVE THE TIGER" co-starring JACK GILFORD IOLORvAissn- viiiMN X . 7 ISQUITE SIMPLY, THE BEST AMERICAN FILM I'VE SEEN THIS YEAR! "_N.Y7E;b Fri., Sat. )ARINFSun.H night at .1??'? Mat. 11 :30 3,5 pm. MARTiNBASAM. RiCHARBENJAMIN. 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But that is a formidable a year- problem in itself. i-es. s," said Michael Miller, who runs t h e peaking American Express operation cat get here, said he managed to dis that tribute about 75 brochures to top to leave people in various Soviet mm- a oud- istrien, the people who ultimate- Mexico ly organize "tourist" trips and .S. gov- allot the hard currency for them. trictions "I have 4,500 more brochures citizens. stacked up in the lobby all ready ires ap- to shoot out," Miller said, "but tn visits I don't have the names to shoot mmuniyt them out to." LIKE REPRESENTATIVES of id I lie- other Western companies based a young in Moscow, Miller's activities are "But it far more restricted than those of just get his Soviet counterparts in t h e ay, Lon- West. ch is al- He cannot, for example, mail scow in out advertising pamphlets or take out ads in newspapers. Miller also complained he is allowed no personal contact with the Soviet tourists. He said ha gets a letter from Intourist list- ing the names of prospective tourists but never sees t h e i r faces. It is Intourist, too, that re- quests certain cities, sights or in- stitutions be included in a given tour. A TYPICAL TRIP, Miller said, might include New York, Wash- ington, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. But the com- pany's brochure also describes stops at U.S. space facilities in Houston and Huntsville, Ala. Among the "special interest" requests made by one Soviet "tourist" group, Miller said, were a visit to Columbia University',s business school and meetings with some of its economists and a tour of the Library of Con- gress in Washington. Soviet visitors to Chicago want- ed to see alight-industry euter- prise, a secondary school and a public library. In San Francisco, Soviet tourists asked to visit a shipbuilding yard and scientific establishments in suburban Berk- A eley. "LOS ANGELES was very typi- cal," Miller said, "Hollywood, Disneyland and a farm-"