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...Asseyev, formerly a professor of philosophy at the University of Leningrad attempted to jump onto the track in the Harvard Square MTA station at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. A man in his company told an MTA starter that Asseyev was about to jump, and a fare collector, Daniel J. Magoon, ran from his booth and stopped Asseyev three to five feet from the edge of the platform, an MTA official said last night...
After a struggle with Magoon, Asseyev was taken by police to Cambridge Hospital; he was later transferred to McLean Hospital, an institution for psychiatric care in Belmont. The MTA labelled as totally false yesterday's reports that Asseyev had been lying on the track when he was saved...
...participant in the Soviet-American cultural exchange program, 35-year-old Asseyev had been studying in the Soc Rel Department at Harvard since September. He was concentrating on logical positivism and the Western sociology of knowledge under a flexible academic arrangement...
...Asseyev jumped from a window of the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Platt at 369 Harvard St. He was hospitalized until Jan. 15, and after his release was reportedly still under psychiatric care at the University Health Services...
...State Department, after a Jan. 4 meeting with Asseyev in the presence of Soviet officials, granted him permission to stay in the United States after his official visa expires in June. He has a wife and child in the Soviet Union, and according to friends has been under great emotional stress...