A young Jew was arrested in Moscow by two Soviet policemen as he walked with an American correspondent on a crowded street, according to reports here today from the Soviet capital. The arrest took place Friday shortly after Roger Leddington, an Associated Press correspondent, met Mikhail Spivak in front of the Lenin Library. As Paddington attempted to follow the two policemen and Spivak, five additional plainclothesmen moved out of the crowd, surrounded him and ordered him to leave, the report stated. Spivak was placed in a car and driven away.
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