U.S. girl visits Lenin’s tomb

Press, 11 July 1983, Page 8

U.S. girl visits Lenin’s tomb

NZPA Moscow Samantha Smith, the American girl who is visiting the Soviet Union at the invitation of the Soviet leader, Mr Andropov, saw Lenin’s tomb at the weekend. She was taken to the front of the line of thousands of ordinary citizens. Her father, Arthur, laid a wreath of red gladioli at the entrance to the tomb before he, Samantha and her mother, Jane, proceeded through the red granite monument on Red Square at the base of the Kremlin Wall. $

The day’s tour started with a visit to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where Mr Smith also laid a wreath to the memory of Soviet war dead. A third wreath was laid by Mr Smith at the foot of the red brick Kremlin Wall where the ashes of the first Cosmonaut, Major Yuri Gagarin, are interred. Later the family was to fly to the Crimea for a fourday stay at a Young Pioneers’ camp. They will then fly to Leningrad for four days before returning to Moscow for the last five days of their tour.