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A waitress who leaped from a Soviet cruise ship into the icy waters off Norway and trudged through Arctic wastelands to seek refuge in the West flew back to the Soviet Union Wednesday.

The 29-year-old Ukrainian woman, who was not identified, returned home after meeting with the Soviet consul at a hospital where she was being treated for frostbite, Norwegian officials said.