The World : Stalin’s Kin Talks to U.S.

U.S. officials in Moscow have talked with Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of the late Soviet leader Josef Stalin, and she wants to return to the West, the State Department said. Alliluyeva suddenly returned to the Soviet Union in 1984 after spending 15 years in the United States and two in Britain. The reported conversation was held after the Sunday Times of London said from Moscow that she wants to return to the United States to join her teen-age American-born daughter, Olga, who went to the Soviet Union with her mother two years ago in a blaze of publicity but chose recently to be repatriated in a secret deal with Kremlin authorities.