Soviet Bus Driver Flees to Norway for Asylum
From Reuters
KIRKENES, Norway —
A Soviet bus driver walked across a frozen river marking the Arctic border between his country and Norway and asked for political asylum, border officials said Sunday.
Border commissioner Inge Torhaug said the 35-year-old man had driven a bus from the Soviet port of Murmansk to the border area and walked across an unguarded part of the Pasvik River.
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