The World - News from April 26, 1985

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter picked up an American fishery official released by the Soviets, the State Department said. Becky Kruppenbach, an employee of the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, which monitors foreign fishing inside the 200-mile U.S. limit, was aboard a Japanese fishing vessel when it was seized by a Soviet icebreaker earlier this week in the Bering Sea off Alaska. Kruppenbach, of Chickasha, Okla., was transferred from the Soviet ship to the U.S. cutter Munro at a point about 20 miles off Cape Olyutorsk, Siberia. Soviet officials have not explained why they seized the Japanese boat and its crew.