European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes monday. October 19,1987 soviet dancer seeks Asylum official says Dallas up Federal authorities remained Light lipped Over the weekend on the whereabouts Ofa Star russian bal ice dancer who disappeared before the troupe s final appearance in Dallas but an Fri official said the dancer is seeking political Asylum. Andrei Ustinov in his Early 30s. Is seeking to select from he soviet Union to the United Stales Oliver b. Re Volt the Fri s executive assistant director old the Dallas times Herald saturday. Re Voll could not be reached for com ment saturday and other Fri and stale department spokesmen declined com ment on Ustinov. The dancer was re ported missing thursday night after fail ing to appear i the Moscow Ballet s performance in Dallas according to police reports. In Portland ore., the Ballet s current Stop Ballet artistic director Vyacheslav Oord Cycz said he knew of no reason Ustinov would try to select. We Don t know where he is. We Are very worried about him Gordeyev said Friday night through an interpreter. I Don l see any particular reason for him in til lie such a trip. As far at this partic ular tour he was dancing the principal he described Ustinov who has a wife and child in the soviet Union As the Type of person who can l concentrate on something Tor very Ustinov normally performs with inc Maly theater in Leningrad but he joined the Moscow Ballet As a principal soloist for its two month 21-City Ameri can our. All i can Tell you is the Fri knows his whereabouts and he is Safe a Dallas police sergeant is. Kendall said Fri Day. The Fri s revel told the times her Ald that Ustinov will be kept under Light Fri Security and will be moved to an undisclosed location while government officials question him. He said question ing May he limited because of Ustinov s probable Lack of knowledge about soviet secrets. Normally these cultural and artistic types they Don t have a lot to ill us he said. Jan Urett in the Ballet s director of marketing and Public relations said Fri Day she had no comment on the situation but expected to make a statement Mon Day in Cupertino Calif. The defection is the second in Tchai in recent years involving an Eastern bloc dancer. I cumin was studying with the Houston Ballet in i9hi when he refused to return to China. He became an Ameri can citizen in Laic 1986 and is now Prin Cipal dancer with the Houston Ballet " we ass Tony i by a Cap for Jessica a photo an abandoned Well at Midland. Texas will no longer pow a danger to Small child Inch As Jessica Mcclure. The Well s Cap is dedicated to he 18-month old girl who fell and was trapped in the Well for More thin so hours before being freed in a complicated and difficult Rescue operation Friday night. Team seeks treasure of history not Gold in sunken Galleon Bald head Island . Up salvages won t necessarily be Hunting for Gold when they dive to a buried Spanish Galleon that Sank in 1804 amid re ports of a murderous Mutiny by us treasure hungry Crew. Dennison Breese a diver for strategic salvos of South Point . Said Friday that divers will Pluck the 14-foot rudder from la Rosa do Bilboa or the Rose of Bilboa buried under five feel of mud Sand and Sill in 20 feet of murky Ocean water about a mile off Bald head Island. The dive is scheduled for nov. 13. We Hope to find whatever is left that is Worth pre serving and put it in a museum said Breese. It would be very Nice if some coins were found to help defray the Cost but the project will go ahead even if we Don l find to ans Kuni and Mark Mitchell own half of Bald head Island one of the string of Barrier islands thai dots the Sandy North Carolina coast. The Brothers from Houston plan to build a museum on the privately owned Island where telephones and cars Are forbidden and villagers travel Barren stretches of Beach in Golf carts. We want to Salvage the rudder to Sec what ships were like in those Days said Breese a Veteran of 35 years of commercial diving. The rudder is in very Good the capper and Lead sheathing on the approximately 140-foot Bilboa was designed to protect n from sea Worms Breese said but it helped searchers using Metal detectors to find the wreck. Only the ship s Bow protrudes from inc Bottom. Researching the wreck Breese and others uncovered the sordid tale of a murderous Crew the Crew members were suspected of murdering the Captain and mate said arc use. I Furgus who was commander of the Blockhouse Al fort Johnson in soul port took them to Charleston for trial. We can t find any record of them being tried. We assume the charges were dropped for Lack of the ship s Manifest or inventory of cargo was never found. Stateside toddler Dies after falling in Pool Cousin very critical Stony Brook n. Y. A one of two toddlers who fell into a Back Yard swimming Pool died sat urday while her Cousin was being kept alive with a Respirator and other life support equipment. It was expected to be at least 48 hours before doctors could determine whether the surviving child 16 month old Allen Long suffered brain damage after he fell into the Pool according to Evelyn Dekeyser an administrator at University Hospital at Stony Brook. Allen was in very critical condition in the podiatric intensive care unit of the Hospital where his Cousin 22 month old Jacqueline Long died shortly after Midnight the two children slipped out of the sliding Back door of a Home in Wisl Hampton and went into the Pool without their mothers noticing. The mothers Sis ters in Law Leigh and Christine Long later spotted inc children in the Pool police said. Teen Dies of heart attack after fleeing prank scene Corinth mis. A a 15-year-old High school student died of a heart attack As he ran from the scene of a prank authorities said. Sheriff Bill cant said Jerry Downs and two friends had been littering the Yard of Alcom county superintendent of education Tony Parker with paper. When faster s wife drove into the driveway he youths ran away. Downs friends had run some distance before they discovered he was t with them. Cant said. They told the sheriff they had last seen their companion running across a Field. We found him lying across a narrow shallow Dildo in the Field cant said. There were no signs of a struggle. The boy s family has a history of heart trouble cant said. Cant said an autopsy indicated Downs died almost instantly. Germany to Oklahoma trip made by late Book Norman okla. A the return trip was Long but thanks to a Library in Germany a Long overdue Book is Back on the shelves at the Norman Public Library. The Book on algebra and analytic geometry had been overdue Tor More than a year when it arrived in the mail recently by Way of Wiesbaden. Circulation clerk Lisa Polston said Library official have no idea How the Book got to the Lindsey As Library in Wiesbaden which returned it to Norman. This Book has seen More of inc world than i have Polson said. Most patrons act very responsibly about returning books. Even if they arc late they return the books eventually she said. Food distribution Center to be built in Maryland North East. My. Up a major wholesale food distributor estimates that about 200 jobs will be created by a distribution Center it plans to build in Cecil county. The Fleming co., which is headquartered in Oklahoma City has announced plans to build an s11.6 million facility Ai the Peninsula Industrial Park in North East. Fleming officials say the Center which will serve food stores in Maryland Delaware Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia is expected to a completed by Early 1989
