The Nation - News from Nov. 22, 1985
A Romanian circus acrobat, prevented from taking a plane from New York to his homeland after his pregnant American girlfriend said he wanted to defect, told immigration officials he wished to go home. An immigration official said the Romanian, Andi Georchescu, 24, had never asked for asylum and would be returned to his country at once.
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