Word: asseyev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yuri Alckseyevitch Asseyev, a former associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Leningrad, had been a patient in McLean Hospital, a mental institution in Belmont, since his attempted jump onto the tracks of the Harvard Square MTA station...
After a Jan. 2 leap from a Harvard St. apartment window, Asseyev met with Soviet and American officials in Cambridge City Hospital to arrange for permission to stay in this country after the expiration of his official visa in June. Whle the Feb. 29 incident did not change his status with the State Department, he was free to reconsider his decision until June...
...United States would probably admit Asseyev's family upon his request, McCloskey said. There is some question, however, about the willingness of the Soviet Union to permit them to leave...
Robert J. McCloskey, State Department press officer, said last night that Asseyev's status would now be "up in the air," since it is impossible to know his intentions at this point...
There has been no reaction whatsoever from the Soviet Union in regard to this incident, McCloskey said. He pointed out that since there would be no official change in Asseyev's status here until his visa expires in June, the Soviet professor is "free to reconsider" his decision to remain here permanently...