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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes thursday september 19, 1991solzhenitsyn free to return Home soviets drop treason Case after 7 7v2 years Moscow apr the chief soviet prosecutor tuesday closed the 1974 treason Case against Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the exiled author of books on life in Stalin a gulag said he would return to his beloved Russia. Prosecutor Nikolai Trubin found a no proof whatsoever testifying to any crime committed by Alexander Solzhenitsyn a Tass news Agency said. The decision came iiv2 years after a decision of the supreme soviet expelled the author from the soviet Union. Solzhenitsyn now 72, is the uncompromising moralist critic of communist tyranny and Western decadence whose Best known works one Day in the life of Ivan Benisovich and the three volume the gulag archipelago which chronicle the lives of people sentenced under dictator Josef Stalin to forced labor Camps in Siberia. They Are based on his own experience. At his estate in Cavendish vt., Solzhenitsyn issued a statement saying a the decision of the . Prosecutor general now removes the Legal obstacle impeding my return to my native land. Therefore it becomes a reality a i shall return to my native land. A but before i do the writings which i began earlier must be completed Here. Upon my return to Russia i will immediately become immersed in other concerns which 1 will be sharing with  the statement did not say when he would return. In new York Roger w. Straus president of publisher Farrar Straus amp Giroux inc., said he had spoken with Solzhenitsyn and his wife Natalia. A they have authorized me to say. They Are ecstatic with their governments statement and they look Forward to fulfilling their dream. To be Able to return to Russia where they would Hope to live and work for the rest of their lives a Straus said. Solzhenitsyn a brutal arrest on feb. 12, 1974, and summary expulsion to West Germany a Day later echoed round the world As a Symbol of soviet repression under then soviet Leader Leonid i. Brezhnev. Trubin said the expulsion decision was  a the Case is closed because of the absence of any actions by Alexander Solzhenitsyn with criminal intent a Tass said. It said Trubin had informed Solzhenitsyn of his decision. News of the decision spread quickly. A wonderful a exclaimed Yelena Bonner widow of human rights Leader Andrei Sakharov. A it should have happened a Long time  poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko welcomed the de Solzhenitsyn vision but complained a this was too bureaucratic for such a great russian writer. Trubin should have apologized and asked forgiveness not in a Legal capacity but As a  Solzhenitsyn a gulag trilogy remains the most detailed published history of How Stalin terrorized killed and imprisoned millions. Once banned All his works Are now widely available in soviet bookstores. Solzhenitsyn was first arrested on feb. 9,1945, while still in the soviet army after counterintelligence officials got hold of letters to a Friend criticizing Stalin. If the Mother and father look like the images at left and right the offspring should resemble the Center picture. A computer lets couples know How unborn child will look Tokyo apr for couples who wonder How their unborn child will look or How each partner will appear after 40 years of marriage an electronics company says it has the answer. Matsushita electric Industrial co. Said it has developed a computer program that can alter photographs of faces to predict the aging process or turn the clock Back to produce a More Youthful image. By combining the facial characteristics of the prospective parents it can produce a portrait of a Likely offspring the company said. A a we be had lots of contacts from wedding Halls that Are interested in using the system at receptions to show the newlyweds future children a said Matsushita a Masahiro Hamada. The system which Matsushita said it Hopes to Market soon consists of a personal computer with a special program and an added circuit Board. The computer analyses facial characteristics from a photograph based on shading and color differences and then creates a three dimensional Model in its memory that can be altered in a variety of ways. To Send an adult Back to childhood the program uses information on changes in facial Bone Structure As children develop and reverses the process. The program predicts How a baby will look by combining the parents faces and then reversing the development process Hamada said. He spent seven years in a labor Camp and three years in internal exile before he was released in 1956. While he was in exile he began to write. One Day in the life of Ivan Benisovich was published in 1962 after a special Resolution was pushed through the communist party Central committee by Nikita Khrushchev. It became an immediate sensation. In terse sentences Solzhenitsyn chronicled the inner life of a Man struggling to survive in a labor Camp in the Frozen wastes of Siberia. After Khrushchev a fall in 1964, the political climate in the soviet Union deteriorated rapidly and the Kab began harassing the writer and blocking publication of his works. He was expelled from the writers Union in 1969, closing the soviet publishing world to him. But Solzhenitsyn took advantage of emerging underground channels known As Samizdat to continue his literary career. In recognition of a the ethical Force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of russian literature a the swedish Royal Academy awarded Solzhenitsyn the Nobel prize for literature in 1970. Soviet authorities refused to let him travel to Stockholm to receive the award. Vicious official attacks were stepped up in 1973, when the first Book in the gulag trilogy appeared in Paris. Renowned cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife Soprano Galina Vishnevskaya sheltered Solzhenitsyn at their Dacha outside Moscow so he could prepare the monumental work. Rostropovich left the soviet Union in May 1974 and was stripped of soviet citizenship in 1978. His citizenship was restored last year. He now is music director of the National symphony orchestra in Washington. World Turkey extends . Use of bases for another year from wire reports Ankara Turkey a Turkey is extending for another year an agreement providing the United states Access to base facilities the foreign ministry announced tuesday. A we Are regarding the defense and economic cooperation agreement As an instrument for the further Progress of strategic ties Between the two countries and Hope that our cooperation within the framework of this agreement will keep developing a the communique said. Under the agreement Washington keeps warplanes at a turkish air base and runs two major electronic surveillance bases and several communications stations in  kippur observed Jerusalem a israeli streets were deserted wednesday except for the occasional devout jew covered in a prayer shawl As the nation observed yom kippur. Yom kippur or the Day of atonement is marked with fasting and prayers of forgiveness. It climaxes 10 Days of penitence that begins with Rosh hash Ana the jewish new year. From shortly before Sundown tuesday until after Sundown wednesday life in the jewish Community was to remain at a  hit greek offices Salonica Greece a two bombs rocked Branch offices of the Public Power corporation and social Security Agency in this Northern City causing damage but no injuries. The explosions tuesday came As a parliamentary debate continued in Athens Over the abolition of a Law Banning the publication of terrorist statements. Police said two terrorist groups the revolutionary popular struggle and May 1, jointly claimed responsibility for the blasts. An Anonymous caller phoned a local newspaper 30 minutes before the blasts and said the buildings should be evacuated. Seven editors were jailed last week after being convicted and sentenced to up to 10 months each for publishing terrorist statements to Challenge the anti terrorist Law which they say imposes censorship  
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