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Their deep-water ship knew worse by that time. On Feb. 24, Zygonschi made an other entry in the diary: Ate the last of our food. What now? They boiled their shoe leather (cowhide) and tried unsuccessfully to fry it in engine oil. The leather of the accordion was eaten next (lamb's hide). There were times when they joked feebly about their "varied diet" of lamb and beef. Like the food, their water, which they had rationed to a spoonful a day, gave out. So they drained the water, rusty but drink able, from the cooling system of the engine and, when that was gone, caught rain water in tarpaulins. Once, high seas contaminated their meager supply with salt, but they drank it anyway. Indicative of their high morale is the way they stretched their food an extra day. They had decided by mutual consent to have a "party" on Feb. 23, Soviet Army Day, at which they would eat-their last po tato in celebration. But at the last moment, they decided to give up their ration and have a cigarette instead (cigarettes had been rationed as carefully as everything else). They felt that as Soviet soldiers their duty was to stay alive; saving the potato for one more day might help their chances. February passed. Premier Khrushchev had toured India; President Eisenhower had visited South America; Queen Eliza beth had borne her third child only a few days before Princess Margaret announced I Family Weekly, May , 1960 her engagement to a commoner; the air craft carrier Kearsarge plowed through the Pacific to meet an unexpected date with fate; an infant, christened Alexander Fedo tov, was born in a Siberian village called Bogorodckoe; and a youth, who no longer looked young, scrawled in a water-stained book: 49th day. When we wake up after we have slept, we are surprised to be alive. Then came rescue. Before fate, in the guise of the U.S.S. Kearsarge, delivered Victor Zygonschi, Anatoly Kryuchkovsky, Philip Poplavsky, and Ivan Fedotov, it was to taunt them cruelly. Sea gulls, to the seafaring man a sign of nearby land, circled their tiny craft continuously, squawking as if mocking them. Only a few days before their rescue, their hopes had soared when they spotted a ship scudding through the heavy seas. But hopes were dashed when towering swells obscured their boat. Two more ships passed them while they vainly tried to signal. Navy doctors later estimated that they could have survived for only five or six more days. The four soldiers have returned to Rus sia. It's doubtful that we will hear of them again. Their language is different, the doc trines they are sworn to defend are a threat to our country. Yet every American can certainly admire their titanic 49-day strug gle against the sea. And as Americans, we might wonder why it remained for the U.S. Navy to write the happy chapter that closed the lost" diary. Since there was radio contact between the landing craft and shore, why hadn't an in ternational call for a massive search gone out from Moscow? That's where the differ ence in ideology comes in. In America, we stress the importance and dignity of each individual, no matter how inconsequential he might seem. The Communist mind works in a different fashion one that we'll never be able to understand fully. w certain imi, surh mrirr petit A Tar, the tame high j J"' amat.H uUa u sold under the mttT name COW BR. 4M). Cmr SOME tTATt
