Diver to go home
NZPA-Reuter Montreal
After a brief fling with Canada, the 17-year-old Soviet diver, Sergei Nemtsanov, who defected during the Olympics and stirred up a political hornets’ nest, is back in the Soviet bosom. United Press International reports. Mr Nemtsanov’s bid for “freedom” began during the politically-troubled Olympics and ended yesterday in a hotel coffee shop as the youth voluntarily turned himself over to two Soviet consular officials in. Montreal.
Immigration officials said the decision was strictly Nemtsanov’s, and totally voluntary. His lawyers said the youth was returning out Of concern for his aged and ailing grandmother,' Mr Rene Poappone, an immigration spokesman, Mid in' Ottawa “There has been no pressure on the part of any individuals on Mr Nemtsanov to have him come to any kind of decision.” He said the Soviets had been in touch with the youth on only one supervised occasion, and could not have pressured Mr Nemtsanov. Canada had also made it clear that he was free to stay.
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Press, 23 August 1976, Page 16
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