The World - News from April 16, 1989

A British religious activist said that Soviet customs officials have impounded a printing press he attempted to bring into the Soviet Union for an unofficial Christian publication. The Rev. Dick Rodgers of Birmingham, England, said the small offset press is being held at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport pending a decision by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Importation of the press for use by former political prisoner Alexander Ogorodnikov’s Bulletin of Christian Opinion would help in the publishing of private journals that have sprung up in the freer atmosphere under President Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s reforms.