Two Soviets Escape to Turkey in Rubber Boat
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From Reuters
ANKARA, Turkey — Two Soviet engineers crossed the Black Sea in a rubber boat and asked for political asylum in Turkey, the semi-official Anatolian News Agency said Tuesday.
They reached the port of Samsun after traveling for five days from Anapa, near Novorossiysk, a distance of some 250 miles, it said.
The agency named the men as Merat Garimov and Oleg Emilianov. It said they are still in Samsun but gave no other details.
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