Khrushchev’s Son Nears Citizenship
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Sergei Khrushchev, son of the late Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, correctly answered 19 of 20 questions to pass a written test for becoming a U.S. citizen. “I got a 95, and my wife had a perfect score,” the researcher told reporters after taking a multiple-choice examination at the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s office in Providence, R.I. Khrushchev, 63, who has been a visiting scholar at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies for the last eight years, missed only one question: What kind of government does the United States have? The correct answer: a democracy. Khrushchev, blaming language problems, chose “executive.”
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