The World - News from Dec. 2, 1987
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev has reiterated the Kremlin claim that Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg died in Moscow’s Lubianka prison of a heart attack in 1947, Wallenberg’s sister said in Stockholm. Nina Lagergren said Gorbachev’s statement, conveyed by the Soviet Embassy in Stockholm, dashed hopes that Moscow’s policy of glasnost --openness--would provide new information about Wallenberg.
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