Word: robertses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tass said the couple had been provided with a "well-appointed" apartment in Ashkarabad for which they paid 10 rubles, or about $15, monthly rent. It also said Roberts had been able to choose his job as a snake catcher and had expressed an interest in exotic animals when he...
Roberts had told the AP in October that he was having difficulty learning Russian and was disenchanted with his job capturing venom from poisonous snakes for use as antivenom serum.
Roberts, of Riverside, Calif., said in the past that he defected because he disliked military service and had put in "two years, two months and 28 days" when he left the Army base in Giessen, West Germany.
"I don't think I'm leaving the U.S.S.R. forever," Tass quoted Roberts as saying. "I have plans to come back here again."
But Roberts told CNN that Tass incorrectly reported his statements.