Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-10
Detecting Red Chemist Tells Dutch
He Was Thworted on FoIIout Tests

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands,
Oct. 10 (AP) "A Soviet chem
ist, whose detection to the West
brought on an airport brawl
between the Soviet Ambassador
and Dutch police. said today
he had been engaged in re-
search on how to overcome the
effects Of nuclear fallout on
human beings.
Police quoted him as saying
he detected because he lacked
freedom to carry on this re-
search.
The detection Of 35-year-old
Alexei Golub resulted in a clash
yesterday when Soviet Ambas-
sador Panteleimon K. Pono-
marenko and his aides went to
Schipol Airport to put the
scientists wife on a Moscow
bound plane. She finally de-
cided to leave her husband,
perhaps forever, and went back
to Russia. They had come here
as tourists.
Mr.. Ponomarenko lost a but
ton off his raincoat in the
brawl, and at least one Soviet
diplomat and a policeman
nursed injuries.
Diplomats Custer Asked
The incident brought news
paper demands that Mr.. Pono-
marenko hereafter be given
only a one-way admission to
the airport-en route home.
Mr.. Golub, a doctor in bio
chemistry, was quoted by a
police spokesman as saying he
was seeking asylum because he
lacked professional freedom in
Russia.
He was quoted as saying he
was engaged in important re-
search on how to remove
strontium out of the human
body without affecting the vital
elem nt, calcium" but his
superiorS made him give up
the research for other work.
Strontium is one of the ele-
mentS from nuclear fallout. 1t
concentrates in the marrow of l
bones and is the chief worry !
OF scientists concerned with {
the effects of nuclear explosions 6
in the osphere on the 6
health of human beings.
Dutch See "Disdain" t
The labor newspaper Het !
Parool, demanding the expul-
sion of Mr.. Panoramenko. said I
he and his staff behaved like
an occupying power But
for the Nazi occupation there
has never been within our
frontiers such a demonstration
Of terror and diSdain of our '
sovereignty" :
Other newspapers also said !
Dutch pride had been hurt. l
The climax of the day-long =
quarrel was the final airport
meeting between Mr.. Golub V
and his wife. Dutch Public 7
Prosecutor J. G. de Zaaijer :
called it a human tragedy. r
In the presence of the Soviet I
ambassador and the public !
prosecutor. Mrs. Golub told her :
husband she had to think Of L
her parents at home in Russia
and was leaving without him.
The couple has no children.
Mr.. de zaaijer said he was t,
convinced the woman had not =
been coerced.
The Golubs arrived last week
with a party of Russian tour "
lists. The husband was q
taken into custody after he =
walked out of their hotel Satur- II
day night and announced he I.
wanted asylum in the West. 7
Police withheld his reasons, Il
presumably to protect any rela-
tiVeS in Soviet Russia. p
Mrs. Golub had accompanied a
her husband when he left his =
hotel but disappeared before
the police arrived.
Dutch Respect Choice
Yesterdays arguments re-
suited from Dutch efforts to
make certain the woman was
returning home of her own free
will.
She appeared at Amsterdam
airport yesterday morning with
Ambassador Ponomarenko and
a group of Russians ready to
leave for Moscow.
Mrs. Golub had no passport,
her husband having turned it
over to the Dutch police. The '
Russian officials stormed into
the airport police headquarters
and demanded the passport.
Police officer Frits Veltman re-
fused until he could talk with
Mrs. Golub alone.