Applause Greets Daniloff as He Returns to Job
Nicholas Daniloff, home after 30 days in Soviet custody, returned to work today, and his colleagues welcomed him with a reception that few reporters get--a round of applause.
Employees at U.S. News & World Report surrounded Daniloff and cheered as he waved to them. He greeted some co-workers with hugs and kisses.
“I’m incredibly moved,” Daniloff told them, adding that a telegram the magazine’s staff sent during his 13 days in a Soviet jail gave him hope.
‘So Many People’
“I didn’t know that so many people worked here and that so many people wanted to put their names down, so that I knew that back here so many people were thinking of me,” he said.
The reporter, 51, was to meet with President Reagan at the White House in the afternoon, a day after his return to the United States, to personally thank him for arranging the deal that brought him home.
His case escalated into an international incident that at one point threatened to put superpower relations into the deep freeze.
He was allowed to leave Moscow on Monday in a complex deal that also let Gennady F. Zakharov, a Soviet U.N. employee, go home after pleading no contest to spy charges in New York.
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