The World - News from Aug. 9, 1985

Soviet authorities in Leningrad detained a Moscow-based American journalist for three hours and confiscated his cassette tapes, 125 pages of notes and U.S. magazines, a State Department spokesman and the Christian Science Monitor said. The Monitor reporter, Gary Thatcher, had returned by ferry to Leningrad en route to Moscow from Helsinki, where he had covered last week’s 10th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki accords. The State Department protested the incident as contrary to Helsinki provisions and urged the return of the confiscated material.