It might well have been her ugliness, Alice Palmer:
Alice Palmer told the People's Daily World[20]; I spent a great deal of time with a woman from the Novosti (Press Agency) and she and I had a lot in common...I had a chance to go shopping, just as I would if were back in Chicago...It is useful to those people who would like to demonize the Soviet people. When I stood in line, it was the same kind of line I stand in in the Jewel grocery store in Chicago. It was merely because the place was crowded, not because at the end of the line there was nothing for me to purchase. In June 1986 the People's Daily World published a Black Press Institute article by Alice Palmer on the CPSU conference entitled "An Afro-American journalist in the USSR". The article praised Soviet "central planning" and included such statements as...