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...three-day growth of beard and was still wearing the rumpled tan trousers he had on when arrested 13 days earlier. But Nicholas Daniloff was < ebullient, witty and still possessed of his reporter's instinct for summarizing a story. As the Cadillac carrying him from Moscow's Lefortovo Prison on Friday night stopped before cheering reporters gathered nearby, Daniloff, 51, popped out, threw his arms into the air and whooped with joy. Nonetheless he quickly observed, "I am not a free man today." Later, as he and his wife Ruth took up temporary residence at the U.S. embassy, Daniloff explained...
Just as Daniloff was getting sprung from Lefortovo, U.S. marshals in New York City, where it was early afternoon, escorted Gennadi Zakharov from the Metropolitan Correctional Center to a Brooklyn federal courtroom for a hearing that took all of three minutes. The Soviet U.N. employee stood ramrod- straight and stone-faced as Judge Joseph McLaughlin read the espionage charges against him. Zakharov said only, "Not guilty." The judge then told him that "contingent on the prior or simultaneous release of Nicholas S. Daniloff," he too was being let go in the custody of his ambassador. Other conditions also were nearly...
Daniloff's release from Lefortovo seemed to prevent, at least for the moment, further escalation of a crisis that had threatened to reverse the modest gains in U.S.-Soviet relations painfully wrought over the past year or so. There still remains a possibility that Washington will send some signals of displeasure to the Kremlin. For example, U.S. Ambassador Arthur Hartman, now in Washington for consultations, could be kept home for an extended stay. But the air is now clearer, and when Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze visits Washington for talks with Shultz Friday and Saturday, they may find it possible...
...Misha was hurrying off, eight KGB agents surrounded Daniloff, grabbed the package he had been given and hauled him away in handcuffs. They drove him to Lefortovo, Moscow's infamous maximum-security prison, where they opened the envelope and announced that it contained photographs and maps marked TOP SECRET. After an interrogation in which the KGB agents demanded to know whom he was "really" working for, Daniloff was stripped of his belt and shoelaces and placed in an 8-ft. by 10-ft. "isolator" cell. Though American reporters in Moscow have been harassed, arrested and expelled in the past...
...Ruth Daniloff was allowed to visit her husband twice within a few days, though family visits are generally limited to one a month. Zuckerman, who was able to travel to Moscow without the usual delays in obtaining a visa, said his correspondent was being treated well but conditions at Lefortovo were harsh. "He was thrilled when I walked in," said Zuckerman. "He literally fell into my arms and was close to tears...