Word: oksana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Communist Ilyushin-14 airliner swept off a Rangoon runway last week and wheeled toward Russia with a drugged, closely guarded wreck of a man as cargo. The man aboard: Soviet Colonel Mikhail I. Stryguine. whose bizarre experience resembled Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina's "jump to freedom" from the Russian consulate in Manhattan almost eleven years ago-except that Colonel Stryguine did not make...
...Lomakin, 53, last identified as councilor of the Soviet embassy in Peking, onetime (1946-48) U.S.S.R. consul general in New York; after long illness; place not revealed. Jacob Lomakin was kicked out of the U.S. in 1948 for his role as the heavy in the case of Mrs. Oksana S. Kasenkina, the Russian schoolteacher who jumped from the consulate window in Manhattan (after Lomakin had confined her there to await involuntary return to the Soviet Union) and was picked up, seriously injured, to recover, become a U.S. citizen...
Nine years after she jumped from the third floor of the Russian consulate in Manhattan to escape being shanghaied back to Russia, 61-year-old former Schoolteacher Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, still ailing, became a U.S. citizen at a heavily guarded ceremony in Boston...
...Smith exhibits surprising ignorance when he says: ". . . It is very doubtful whether the Russians are capable of conversion, even if we could reach their ears." Oksana Kasenkina, former Soviet schoolteacher, jumped to freedom from the third floor window of the Soviet consulate in New York, Lieut. Peter Pirogov flew his bomber from Soviet Ukraine to the U.S. zone in Germany to seek freedom ... In Mr. Smith's own England lives former Red Air Force Colonel Grigory Tokaev, who also escaped . . . These are only a few of many thousands who have been converted. Half a million of Russian displaced persons...
...haven for Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina became a law of the land. President Truman signed the bill waiving immigration requirements, and paving the way for citizenship for the onetime Soviet schoolteacher who made her three-story leap to freedom from a Soviet consulate window in Manhattan almost three years...