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Ironically, Norway arrested and tried a woman for espionage in 1965, after a KGB defector had told how Soviet intelligence in the 1950s secured information from "a female employee [in the Moscow embassy] who enjoyed Russian male companionship." But the authorities picked up the wrong woman -one Ingeborg Lygren-and had to pay her $5,700 in false-arrest damages, while Gunvor Haavik continued her career...
...wife Lyudmila and his mother appeared on Soviet television last week, pleading with their defector to come home. Moscow promised there would be no reprisals. In Washington, a Soviet diplomat was allowed a 50-minute interview with Belenko, who was brought from his debriefing at Airlie House, a conference center in the Virginia foothills. The pilot refused entreaties to return home, and his U.S. hosts happily resumed their debriefing. The longer the revealing conversations continue, the safer it would seem for the blabbing Belenko to stay in the West...
...stars into box office draws at the cinema. In Spain, Dancer Rudolf Nureyev, 38, has stepped into the role of legendary screen lover in Ken Russell's film Valentino. His sole dancing assignment in the film: a 1920s tango. At the same time in New York, fellow Kirov Defector Mikhail Baryshnikov has tried a few lines of his own in The Turning Point, a ballet movie featuring Misha, 28, and Leslie Browne, 19, as a pair of dancer-lovers. For Browne, a last-minute stand-in for ailing Gelsey Kirkland, the movies are a grand jeté from obscurity...
Standing together, they look like mismatched members of a computer dating service. But Judith Jamison of New York's Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Co. and Mikhail Baryshnikov, celebrated defector from Russia's Kirov Ballet, will be partners all right-as dancers rather than daters. Last week the couple showed off a few moves to promote a May 11 benefit pas de deux in behalf of the Ailey troupe and Boys Harbor, Inc., a New York charity for youngsters. And how will Jamison (5 ft. 10 in.) fare with the smaller (5 ft. 6 in.) premier danseur? "Misha...
...Scientologists, largely because of the rising number of complaints about Scientology. Among the most questionable practices reported in various countries: the recording of confessions that made members susceptible to blackmail; "disconnect" orders requiring the devout to sever all ties with antagonistic family and friends; "fair game," under which a defector could be "deprived of property or injured by any means . . . sued, lied to or destroyed." The worst practices were dropped, but the sect did not become notably friendlier. "Black p.r." and "noisy investigations" (wellpublicized inquiries into the motives and backgrounds of critics) continue. Hubbard once spoke darkly of handling enemies...