Mr. Medvid repeatedly told Dr. Padoch in Ukranian that he wished to seek political asylum and to live in an honest country. In fact. Dr. Padoch was asked by a border patrol officer to assure the frightened sailor that no harm would come to him. Yet for some inexplicable reason. harm did come to Mr. Medvid. In the early hours of Friday. October 25. he was transferred by U.S. Border Patrol officers to representatives of a shipping company that forcibly returned him to the Soviet freighter. Upon realizing that he was being returned to the Soviet ship. Mr. Medvid jumped into the Mississippi River once again. the time being well after midnight. once again into the stormembroiled waters of the Mississippi River. and once again he swam to shore.
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