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Show SOVIET HINDERS HUNTFOR PAIR MOSCOW, Dec- 10 UPr Officials Offi-cials of the United States embassy, attempting to learn the whereabout , of an American writer and hi wife who disappeared mysteriously, were handicapped today by lack of cooperation coop-eration shown by Russian authorities. authori-ties. . There was nothing to indicate I that the couple, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Don-ald L. Robinson of New York, had been arrestedVbut the writer s prK vate papers in his room at the National Na-tional hotel bad been confiscated. The private effect of the Americans, Ameri-cans, including Jewelry and other articles, were removed from their room after a Russian speaking man moved in. It could not be determined deter-mined where they were taken. The American embassy undertook under-took an investigation upon the order or-der of the state department in Washington. It had been unable to identify the Robinsons because they had made no contact with the embassy em-bassy and apparently had not associated as-sociated with other Americans here since they arrived on November 6 for an extended stay. It was learned that Robinson conducted con-ducted business with the soviet state publishing house, but nothing was known of its nature. Robinson vanished several days ago and his wife was missed yes- tar day Oa Wednesday ah had eeM newspaper men that he had left their room in the hotel ostensibly to go to a hospital to be treated for fever. She said that she had been Informed when her husband failed to return he had contacted pneumonia pneu-monia and had been placed in an "iron lung." All her efforts to locate the hospital hos-pital failed, she said, and a physician physi-cian told her that an "Iron lung" ordinarily was not used in treating pneumonia. |