Ballerina goes back to Moscow
The plot line was murky, the key-action took place offstage, and some motives were unclear, but one thing was certain about last week's high drama at Kennedy Airport: the Soviets got the girl.
Whether Ballerina Ludmila Vlasova of the Bolshoi Ballet really wanted to go home or to defect with her husband, Dancer Alexander Godunov, may never be known in full. When Godunov, one of the most brilliant of Soviet ballet stars, made his rush to freedom, he did notor could nottake her with him. Upholding U.S. law prohibiting forced repatriation, the State Department insisted on interviewing Vlasova...