t others have
ad their lives i in

es Whatever: the means - on.
foot ° ‘across :. thousands pf |
‘miles: of desolate tundra;- by

liot air. balloon or : un- ; sector of Berlin, swimming «

‘underwater ° and. breathing ©”
- through a. snorkel to: avoid’
: : detection. by border r patrol ;
om ee Stra,

. derwater with a snorkel - ‘the’
defectors: who: “grabbed
headlines. © this”: summer
“usually said’ the same ‘thing -
they: wanted -more. freedom, '

‘whether ‘it’ ’be- Personal or

Professional.

* Alexander Godunov, one
at the- Bolshoi: Ballet’s star
‘dances, made ’\the most
-Mazzling: exit: ‘from a glit-
; tering © careci 1 New York
“Aug. -22. when he left his
‘troupe: ‘and asked to stay in
the United States.

> Then: at the end of the
Bolshoi. four last week in Los
‘Angeles, “Godunov’s stand-
in, Leonid Kozlov, and -his
ballerina) wife Valentina
_Slipped“away afier a per-
formance of.:“Romeo and
Juliet” and asked for asylum.

Like several other Russian

- ballet stars who also have

chosen the West - Rudolf

Nureyev, Mikhail

. Baryshnikov. and Natalia

Makarova -.they all cited the

opportunity for more artistic
freedom.

«In ‘another dramatic exit”

this summer, two East
German, . families soared

across the East-West border ,
Sept. 16 in a homemade hot |,
air balloon, its burning gas
glaring «in
night. .~

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» Strelzik, “designer ‘Of the
_ balloon,

‘arrived in Sweden at the end’

perilous onc- way juurney to

‘border guards the slip - by. .

| Page Al3, September 26, 1979- North Shore News —

ww . . oe :

“te, was no jonger possible ;
for us to lie to our children . ~

_and put. up with: the political J
’ conditions,”

Said ‘aircraft

mechanic | ‘Hans-Peter os

Five days later, another
‘Bast German crossed-a -
border lake to the. American °.-

. Earlier’.
Soviet

“this month, oe
physics .. teacher 2

of* an incredible journey | ~
across. the.’ northernmost . -
reaches of the Soviet border. .
He only would give his first’
name, Alexander, to protect —
relatives he left behind. .

“Alexander's journéy took woe
him across 2,500 miles and’.
four countries in 26 days of i
walking and hitch-hiking,”
Western diplomat said.

- But for each of them there _

are voz. * Of ordinary men
and wusuen who take the”

the West, giving police and —

using forged papers, hiding
in automobiles, crawling
through drainpipes, by any
means that will get them out.

The Western diplomat
said there has been a recent ©
increase of those opting to
try making it. across the |.
border, adding, “The in-
crease in those risking their
lives- probably can be at-
tributed to worsening living .
conditions, tighter food
supply and the new .Com-

munist . ‘crackdown. on ~-

dissent.”

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