U.S. Defector Gets Soviet Cancer Post

MOSCOW — American scientist Arnold Lockshin, who defected with his family to the Soviet Union two months ago, is now head of a cancer research laboratory in Moscow, the weekly Nedelya reported Friday.

Lockshin, 47, said when he arrived here that he and his wife, Lauren, had been constantly persecuted in the United States for their radical political beliefs and that the last straw had been his dismissal from the post of cancer laboratory head at a hospital in Texas. His employers had criticized the standard of his work.

But Nedelya, in a double-page spread headlined “Now We Are Muscovites,” said he had been given an equivalent job at the cancer research center of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences and was also taking Russian language lessons.