Stalin's daughter hopes to be U.S. citizen
Svetlana becomes wife of U.S. architect
PHOENIX, Ariz. (UPI) Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, said Wednesday her marriage to a prominent architect would bring her closer to American life and that she hoped to become a U.S. citizen.
Miss Alliluyeva, 44, who defected from the Soviet Union in 1967, married William Wesley Peters, 57, in a private ceremony near here Tuesday.
At a news conference Wednesday, the couple described their first meeting of only three weeks ago when Miss Allilluyeva came to visit Taliesin West, the architectural school of the late Frank Lloyd Wright.
Peters is chief architect for Taliesin Associated Architects, the organization which has carried on the Wright Foundation's work. He had been an associate of Wright since 1932 and was formerly married to the Wright's eldest daughter, also named Svetlana. She was killed in an
auto accident in Wisconsin in 1946.
Miss Alliluyeva decided to visit Taliesin West and the Wright family after corresponding with another Wright daughter, Iovanna, who lives here with her mother. The Kremlin-born Svetlana said she was moved by the "unique quality" of Miss Wright's letters and the coincidence of the name of the sister who was killed.
Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright, also a native Russian, told reporters she felt a "closeness" to Miss Alliluyeva from the moment they first met.
Peters said his decision to marry the attractive Miss Alliuyea came about through "almost miraculous circumstances."
He recounted her defection from her homeland in protest of a lack of freedom and said it seemed more than coincidence that she had found her way to Taliesin West, which he described as "the essence of American democracy."
Cambodians release hijacked munitions ship
SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (UPI) — The U.S. munitions ship Columbia Eagle, hijacked at sea last month by two American crewmen, set sail Wednesday from this port after being released by Cambodian officials.
Capt. Donald Swann, skipper of the 10,636-ton freighter, would not disclose its destination but, presumably, it was the U.S. Naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines.
Swann, in a shipboard news conference before sailing, said the two men who hijacked the ship appeared to be Vietnam War protesters under the influence of narcotics.
The captain identified the hijackers as Clyde McKay and Alvin Glatatoski, both in their early twenties and said each had a pistol. They received political asylum in Cambodia after diverting the ship here from its original destination, Sattahip, Thailand.
When it was hijacked March 14 in the Gulf of Thailand, the ship had a cargo of 750 and 500-pound bombs for use by Thaibased American aircraft in the aerial war over South Vietnam and Laos.
Swann, 51, of Portland, Ore,
said the hijackers told him they
did not want the ship's cargo to
reach its destination.
"Both of them were so nervous and shaky and didn't make anything quite clear. At the time it happened, I do think they were under the influence of drugs," he said.
Swann said he encountered the hijackers when he left the bridge and returned to his quarters, where they were holding the chief mate.
Swann said his first order was to abandon ship. Twenty-four of the Columbia Eagle's crewmen left the vessel in two lifeboats. They were later picked up by another ship.
"No one else on board knew what was happening except the chief mate and myself, and he was under the gun and I was under the gun. I was giving orders to the bridge by phone."
Swann said that when the ship arrived off Cambodia, March 15, McKay flagged down the operator of a pleasure boat, gave him a piece of gold from a small bag and asked that Cambodian officials be notified he was seeking asylum.
With 11 other crewmen still on board, Swann said he then gave orders to get underway and steer a course for Sihanoukville, Cambodia's principal port.
After the ship docked, Cambodian officials refused to release it until Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES (UPI)—Sandy Koufax holds the National League record for the most victories for a left-handed pitcher. He won 27 for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1966, his last season.
ance of the State Department, she eventually entered the United States in April. 1967.
The moon was the only satellite which could be observed before the invention of the telescope.
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Dick Wright, manager of the Yuk, said Wednesday that the policy is still in effect "up to a point." Wright added that he felt additional news coverage of the controversial policy was unnecessary because the Yuk has "made its point."
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She said she felt it is "a hopeless dream" to try to bring her children by her first two marriages to this country. "But I hope some day we eventually will be reunited here," she said.
if it continued, a steady escalation of price supports.
Wright said the policy was initiated after "a certain element" began frequenting the Yuk.
For feed grains, the new legislation includes a guarantee of corn supports at $1.35 per bushel on production from half of each farmer's planting base. The old tie to a percentage of parity would also be cut for these grains.
Last March the Yuk Up and Yuk Down, located in the Hillcrest Shopping Center at Ninth and Iowa, began a policy of refusing admittance to people with long hair.
The new Mrs. Peters said it will be "in God's hands" whether they have children of their own. The children, Joseph, 25, and
Katherine, 20, were left behind when Miss Alliluyeva went to India to attend burial rites for her fourth husband, Brajesh Singh. Their marriage was never recognized by the Soviet government.
The new subcommittee grain measures now go to the full committee which is developing an omnibus farm bill to replace a measure scheduled to expire at the end of 1970. A cotton subcommittee, considering a measure similar to the grain plan, was scheduled to meet Thursday.
The victory over backers of plans which would allow escalation came as a House agriculture subcommittee approved, by a 9-8 margin, compromise support plans for wheat and feed grains developed by Rep. Page Belcher, R-Okla., in collaboration with Agriculture Department and White House officials.
Farm support plan approved
While in New Delhi, she slipped away from the Soviet embassy and sought refuge in the U.S. embassy there. With the assist-
Hair policy still upheld
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Administration farm officials Wednesday won a narrow but vital first-step victory for a new plan designed to continue farm support spending at approximately current levels for the next three years.
Both critics and backers of the
Administration officials had opposed retaining parity formula because inflation has increased parity prices. This would mean,
The three-year grain legislation would guarantee support for wheat earmarked for domestic consumption at $2.77 a bushel for the 1971, 1972 and 1973 crops. This flat dollars-and-cents figure would replace the current system under which supports are tied to the "fair earning power" parity price.
new plans saw the action as foreshadowing probable approval by the full House Agriculture Committee.
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