Russians Finally Answer Yes--To Lampy's Plea for Ibis

If all goes smoothly, the Lampoon's much-traveled Sacred Ibis will return to Cambridge Friday from its present resting place at the Russian UN headquarters in New York.

'Poonsters have turned a deaf ear to pleas that the Ibis be allowed to grace a spire on the University of Moscow. Several hundred Radcliffe and College students yesterday signed petitions demanding that the bird remain with the Russians, "to whom it now belongs by right of courtesy."

The Russians yesterday received a detailed letter from John M. Updike, Lampoon president, explaining the gift of the bird and, after much confusion, agreed to the return--with minor reservations.