SOVIET WITH HOLDS COMMENT ON RAID; Shows Restraint in Press on U.S. Rescue of Ship
Date: 16 May 1975
By CHRISTOPHER S. WREN Special to The New York Times
Christopher WREN
Tass and Izvestia accounts of Mayagez incident are factual and without criticism of US operation; initial silence indicates USSR may have been concerned about saying anything to jeopardize Soviet-Amer relations; Soviet Govt reptdly is upset by treatment given their caretaker staff at USSR Embassy in Phnom Penh; staff was transported out of Cambodia along with other foreigners by new Communist Govt recently; Soviet restraint in Mayagez matter seen as measure of progress of detente (S)