The World - News from Aug. 3, 1986

A Soviet court convicted a U.S. citizen and his Soviet partner of smuggling antique violins out of the country. The newspaper Soviet Russia said Peter Thomas D’Oria, a graduate of Fordham University in New York, was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in jail for smuggling an antique violin worth $59,700 out of the Soviet Union. The paper said that D’Oria, who is married to a Soviet woman but retains his U.S. citizenship, had worked as a translator. His Soviet partner, Sergei Dyachenko, a lecturer at the prestigious Moscow Conservatory, was jailed for seven years. The American Embassy in Moscow said it is investigating the report.