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Before the week was out, the short, slightly dowdy defector, now 41, had become a major international incident. In Moscow, where Svetlana left a 21-year-old son and a 15-year-old daughter, Kremlin officials stewed angrily, kept any mention of the defection out of the official press and radio. In Washington, the State Department was just as embarrassed, fearing that the incident would jeopardize its chances for better relations with Russia and interfere with delicate discussions on Viet Nam and the pending treaties on nuclear proliferation and consular exchange...
Some Second Thoughts. The strange saga of Svetlana actually began in December when the Russians gave her permission to fly to New Delhi with the ashes of her late lover Brajesh Singh, a member of a distinguished Indian political family and a Communist who had worked at a Soviet publishing house. In India, Svetlana visited the Singh family, scattered her companion's remains on the waters of the Ganges. Then, one day last week, she quietly slipped into the American embassy and flabbergasted American officials by requesting asylum...
Without a word to the world, Svetlana received a U.S. visa and an air ticket. Traveling as "S. Allilueva"-her mother's maiden name-she flew on to Rome, accompanied by Embassy Second Secretary Robert Rayle. Then suddenly the story broke, and reporters and photographers turned out in force. Searching for Svetlana, they staked out the U.S. embassy, the airport, Rome's Cavalieri Hilton Hotel and the home of U.S. Ambassador G. Frederick Reinhardt. But Svetlana was nowhere to be found, and Washington, which was be ginning to have second thoughts about the whole affair, was keeping quiet...
...Light on History. As the person closest to Stalin during much of his brutal, 30-year reign, Svetlana could well shed much light on shrouded facets of Soviet political history. She was just a young girl when Stalin launched his bitter purge of the 1930s. Even after Stalin's death she was close to the men who ran the Kremlin-until the mid-1950s, when Khrushchev suddenly launched his destalinization program. It was possibly the Soviet's destalinization, in fact, that prompted Svetlana to defect. No one, of course, could be sure. Like almost everything connected with...
...Svetlana Stalina was not alone last week in winning her freedom from Russia. A Soviet appeals court lifted the three-year labor-camp sentence imposed last December on Buel Ray Wortham, 25, of Little Rock, Ark., who had been convicted of stealing an antique statue of a bear from a Leningrad hotel and of changing money on the black market (TIME, Dec. 30). In place of the prison sentence, Wortham was ordered to pay a 5,000-ruble ($5,555) fine. The decision came after a plea by a group of Little Rock townfolk, who had promised to pay whatever...