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Yuri Alekseyevitch Asseyev, 35, learned of the decision in his Cambridge City Hospital room where he is recovering from injuries sustained in the fall. According to standard procedure, he met with representatives of the Soviet government in the presence of U.S. officials before the State Department granted his request...
During that interview Asseyev, who had been studying in the Social Relations department since September, reportedly said he had jumped head first from a window in the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Platt at 369 Harvard...
...clear motive for the jump has been given by either Asseyev or the State Department. Robert Owen, an officer in the Russian Affairs Division who talked to Asseyev, said "It is a complex matter. This had been a hard and difficult decision to make: to desert your own country and choose another country over it. Naturally it must 'have been followed by mixed emotions...
Robert J. McCloskey, State Department press officer, said Asseyev had told Soviet representatives that "he had thought this decision over carefully and that it was taken on his own volition without any encouragement from anyone else." Reliable sources here said yesterday that Asseyev had told University officials of his desire to stay in the United States, and that they had put him in touch with the State Department...