European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday february 14, 1990 soviet communists endorse private property ownership Black history month Moscow a the communist party pm braced the principle of private property monday in surprising rejection of one of the fundamentals of marxism and soviet Power the communist party of the soviet Union believes thai the existence of individual property including ownership of the Means of production docs not contradict the modern stage in the country s economic  said a new party platform. Marxist theory holds that factories and other Means of producing goods must be owned by the state rather than individuals because that inevitably results in one person exploiting the labors of another. The part platform worked out and approved at crucial Mcc eng of the policy making Central commit tee last week bowed to marxist theory by proclaiming that any form of property must prevent Man s Aliena Tion from production or exploitation. But it made i Effort to define either term. Communists intend to re form the top heavy soviet system in serious economic Straits into a planned Market Economy based on a diversity of property forms Competition Between Independent manufacturers. A developed financial system and on the powerful stimuli of personal and collective  said the platform released by the lass news Agency. It said state owned property should be turned Over to workers to control by leasing contracts joint Stock holdings and other methods. No other details were immediately available  Rostropovich left rehearses Ith the . National symphony orchestra in the Moscow conservatory. Soviets should dismiss charges against Solzhenitsyn cellist says Moscow a cellist and conductor is slav Rostropovich. In his Homeland for the first time in i years. Monday said the government should drop trea son charges against Alexander Solh Emlyn and apologize 10 the exiled author. La is ridiculous that a charge like this continues to loom Over  Rostropovich told u news conference the Day Afler resuming to the soviet Union for con certs m Moscow and Leningrad. Rostropovich and his wife Singer Gamma Vishnevskaya. Were stripped of citizenship in 1978. Lour cars a after they were hounded into leaving the soviet Union for giving Refuge to . Vishnevskaya had spent 30 years with the Bolshoi theater opera company and her husband gained inter National renown As a cello soloist and conductor with the Moscow philharmonic orchestra. He has con ducted the National symphony orchestra of washing Ion. . For 13 years. In january the supreme soviet legislature restored their citizenship and nullified an edict stripping them of All honors and medals. When asked about the possible return of sol Phenil san to the soviet Union. Rostropovich said the writer hoped to do so but not until censorship of his work was completely lifted. I think that Alexander Solzhenitsyn will come Back bul the soviet Union Musl apologize Lor the absurd charge of High  he said. Failure to repeal the charge which carries the death Penally runs counter to the liberalization occurring in the Sovil Union. Rostropovich told reporters. Citizenship has been restored to several prominent cultural figures who lost it under previous regimes an they have returned during the cultural thaw that pre vails under president Mikhail Gorbachev.  who depicted the horrors of Josef Sta Lin s prison Camps in the Ililau archipelago was formally chaffed with Hilt treason in 1974. Stripped Olheis citizenship and expelled. Ros Krupovich and ins Wile followed their Friend a few months later. Soviet officials have said sol he Natsyn s citizenship could he restored hut Only it he formally asks Lor it. They say no request has been received from the author who lives in Vermont. Rostropovich. 62. Said he and Vishnevskaya had found their return a bittersweet and emotional experience. It is a Siangc feeling to be Back in my own coun try she said. Our reception was warm and affection ate bul Many friends have passed away la was very  we left Here insulted Rostropovich said then sarcastically he said the order depriving them of citizenship was signed by Brezhnev referring to Chelate president Leonid Brezhnev who did nol do any damage to the Sovil Union of  Brezhnev now is vilified As a Leader who brought economic and political stagnation during is years in Power. Vishnevskaya said she and her husband thought they never would return. We were thrown out of our own House she said but now the government has recognized its Barbaric act As unworthy and we had an Opportunity to re  we were  Rostropovich said the soviet Union was an Island of lies now ii is cleans ing itself of these  the cellist who will give concerts tuesday and wednesday at the Moscow conservatory presented soviet health officials with 1 million single use syringes monday to help in the Campaign Agassi acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Countee Cullen orphaned As a child Countee Cullen As adopted by a minister and Hud his first Book of poems published when he was 21. That bunk. Color on the Harmon foundation s Gold medal for High achievement in literature in 1925. Cullen earned a master s degree from Harvard in 1926. Primarily a lyrical poet he was one of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. 11 is other books included the Ballad of the brawn Jirl in 1928. The Black Christ and other poems in 1929 and on these i stand in 19-17. This is another in a series of paintings by spec. James Scott appearing in i lie stars and stripes this month. Inventor of velcro of lung problems at 82 comm ugly. Switzerland a inventor George do Mes Lral. Whose velcro Fastener slut so Well with the Public n replaced millions of buttons and zippers has died at his Home his wife said monday. He was 82.pc mistral s wife. Helen Saul he died from complications from bronchitis and other lung problems. He had been sick for about  weeks she  Swiss mechanical Engineer. Be Mes Lral in 19-11 conceived a Fastener ism ii two labile strips one covered a Vii Liny Hooks the other with a fuzzy seb la Hooks could grab. Patented after 10 years of re me men velcro entered production in several countries in the mid-l95i. S. The Fastener which can also lie used to replace adhesive tape soon became a worldwide Success. Mayor in new zealand named governor general Wellington new zealand up Queen Elizabeth has appointed Dame Catherine Tizard As the next governor general of new zealand. Dame Catherine becomes new zealand s first woman governor general and Only the third woman appointed in the Commonwealth. A stat Emcil issued from government House in Wellington where the Queen is staying during the cur rent leg of her Royal tour of new zealand said Gover nor general sir Paul Reeves completes his live year term in  Catherine is mayor of Auckland. 9 in wedding party die when their truck hits bus Kuala Bumpur. Malaysia a nine Mem Bers of a wedding party were killed monday when their Small truck collided with an express bus police said. The Driver and 38 passengers on the bus were not injured in the crash near Batu Phat. About 150 Miles South of Kuala Lampuri the National news Agency bar Nama reported from Batu Phat