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Amarillo Globe-Times Soviet pilot defection. Viktor Betonko and son Dima APWiraffoto Pilot To Remain in U.S.; Red Persuasion Fails WASHINGTON (AP) Soviet officials failed to convince a Russian jet fighter pilot who defected to the United States to return borne after an extraordinary meeting with the pilot, State Department officials say. U.S. officials said Wednesday First Lt Viktor I. Belenko, who flew his jet fighter to Japan, was interviewed at the State Department Tuesday by Soviet embassy officials who sought to persuade him to return to Russia.

State Department officials said that Belenko will continue to reside in the United States. They gave no details of the meeting, other than to say that "as of now thcre is no chance he will change mind." In a major publicity drive aimed at convincing Belenko to come home, his wife and mother gave a press con- fenoce in Moscow Tuesday, urging the SALMON Highly nutritious New lower prices pilot to return. His wife, Ludmila Petrovna, said she had been assured her husband would be forgiven and there would be no reprisals if he changed his mind. The Russian pilot flew his MIG2J fighter onto a Japanese airbase and requested asylum in the United States three weeks ago. President Ford granted the request and the plane, considered one of the most sophisticated in the world, Is being disassembled for examination by Japanese and American experts.

Belenko has been living secretly in the United States since Sept. 9. cia officials have been interviewing him extensively and reportedly received major intelligence information. The Russians are reportedly very concerned over the information Belenko is giving the CIA. Moscow has accused the United States of splitting a family by force in order to obtain intelligence.

The Soviets asked the United States to arrange a meeting between embassy officials and Belenko. This was done only after Belenko consented to the meeting because there is nothing in international law or treaties with the Soviet Union requiring that a defector meet with his former government. Try richer RANCH CHILI (the chili eater's chili) SAVE 200 WITH COUPON BELOW SAVE YOU'LL LIKE IT SAVE Soviet Top Jet Dogfighter 11 In 1QA4 and 1965to TOKYO (AP) Japanese defense experts say the Soviet Union's top fighter jet, the MIC25, is a "flying tank," a high-altitude interceptor rather than a dogfighter, defense agency sources said today. Experts examining the MIG25 flown to Japan by a defector three weeks ago consider the formerly super-secret plane is one of world's top fighters despite some outdated equipment. The MIG flown to Hakodate in northen Japan by Lt.

Viktor I. Belenko was dismantled and closely analyzed by Japanese and U.S. experts at a Japanese air force base in northern Japan. Belenko was granted asylum in the United States. The examination and Japan's refusal to acknowledge Moscow's demands for immediate return of the plane and pilot Phantom jet flown by the Japamse air iorce, the sources said.

They were quoted as saying that the MIGZS's maximum thrust is believed to exceed that of the Phantom by eiijht tons and that of the U.S. Air Force's F14 and F15 fighters by 15 tons. The MIG25 weighs with no load, much heavier than originally expected, and would weigh about 35 tons with fuel and arms, the experts said. The plane is trade mostly of steel instead of titanium, (hi- strong, lifiht metal used in U.S. interceptors, they said.

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Six Japanese fishing vessels have reportedly been seized by the ly identified donors who last December Russians since the defection, although had offered proceeds from the sale of the Soviet Union has not ac- lots at NE IS and Birmingham to the the reports. City of Amarillo. Japanese and Soviet diplomats are Proceeds from the sale of the land now negotiating the timing and manner were donated to the city by H.N. of the plane's return. Wheeler, bis sons Phil and Kenneth, The Japanese experts said the MIG25 and Mrs.

Bob Kesterson, with the had an ejection seat, contradicting stipulation that the money be used by reports that there was none. the public library system. They said outmoded vacuum tubes According to Alice Green, city were used in its electronics equipment, librarian, Mrs. Kesterson has specified Whether the MIGffi's electronic were that proceeds from sale of the land backward is still undetermined and owned by her will be used as a await further thorough examination. memorial to her late husband.

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