The World - News from June 24, 1988

The Soviet Union permitted the Alaska National Guard to conduct an air search inside its territory for a party of lost Eskimos, the first time such a search has been allowed, U.S. Sen. Frank H. Murkowski (R-Alaska) said. The Soviet Ministry of the Maritime Fleet allowed three aircraft to fly inside Soviet territory along the Bering Strait for a six-hour period, the senator said in a statement. The Eskimos, who had been hunting for walrus, have been missing from St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Strait since June 3.