Defection Bid by Soviet Officer Sergei Kourdakov
Sergei Kourdakov, once a Kamchatka youth leader and naval prodigy, fled the USSR by swimming from a Russian trawler after a storm near the British Columbia coast. Copley News Service details his disillusionment with communism, his religious awakening, and efforts in the United States to secure asylum and potential citizenship.
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Washington
Nikita
Khrushchev
Serge
Kourdakov
16Th Street
Soviet Union
Ussr
Kamchatka
Russia
Communist Youth League
Leningrad
Naval Academy
Communist Party
Sergei Kourdakov
British Columbia
Underground
Evangelism Society
Earl Landgrebe
R-Ind
United States
Congress
Bolsheviks
Balmorhea graduates head to Sul Ross and beyond
Two 1972-73 graduates Jennie Sue Herring Sylvia Clark and Helen K Norton plan to attend Sul Ross University Others include Debbie Turnbaugh heading to Texas University at Austin with siblings Cindy Dennis and Larry Following Pats McIntire and Alberta Poeschull to Sul Ross for a second year Vanada Farmer studies business in Dallas Cordelia Davis returns home after a month with family Reeves City Council meets at Saragosa school house Attendees include local officials and Pecos Barstow ISD reps NYC girls decorate classrooms and a new Saragosa Target Area board is formed with Tomas Martinez as president 90 people share punch and cookies The American Beauty rose is the official flower of Washington DC.
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Jennie Sue Herring
Sylvia Clark
Helen K. Norton
Sul Ross University
Debbie Turnbaugh
Texas University At Austin
Cindy
Dennis
Larry
Pats
McIntire
Alberta PoeSchull
Sul Ross
Vanada Farmer
Dallas
Nyc
Benstia Lujan
Priscilla Candeles
Susana Casias
Saragosa
Juan Silvas
Armanda Mondragon
Commuity Council
Tomas Martinez
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Ray McHugh
Copley News Service
Siberia
Naval
Komsomol
Young Communist League
Moscow
Kiev
Natasha Shdanova
Communist League
U.S.S.R
Hungary
Austria
Armenia
Turkey
Balmorhea
Cordelia Davis
O. L. Haug
Alamogordo
N.M
Don Carter
Houston
Frankie Kingston
Big Bend Park
Reeves Commity Council
Saragosa School House
Rachel Kirkwood
Gene Abila
Alfredo Gomez
Pete Lopezal
Pecos
Harold Meyer
Nora Brijalba
Pecos- Barstow
Tommy Martinez
Gus Natividad
Saragosa Target Area
Washington, D.C
Men’s & Boys
Chatham
Intertec Sudl Comburt
Pilvester Kanit
C.R. Anthony Coo
Wille
Penn Prest
Jcpenney
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