People

By Guy D. Garcia

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 a former resident of the White House? "Of course not," she said. She sat waiting until a Moscow-based American TV correspondent finished filming nearby. Then, armed with the proper chit, he escorted Amy and her friends past the Marine guard and treated them to an all-American meal.