Soviet Woman Airlifted to Aid

A Soviet woman complaining of abdominal pains was airlifted this morning by the Coast Guard from a Soviet trawler 200 miles off the coast and taken to a La Jolla hospital.

A Coast Guard spokesman identified the woman as Svetlana Trokudina, 26, who was aboard the Soviet vessel Gnevnyy. Lt. Joe Riordan said Trokudina arrived at the Coast Guard Air Station at Harbor Island at 9:19 a.m. and was taken by ambulance to Scripps Memorial Hospital. “She was ambulatory and displayed no extreme signs of distress. Her vital signs were stable,” Riordan said. “She had the phrase ‘My name is Svetlana Trokudina,’ down pat, but she didn’t appear to speak English.”