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8-A Tuesday, June 28, 1988 The Philadelphia Inquirer Sort editors seeking deal to publish Solzheniyn Tyler Maru. 4X Angeles rimes MOSCOW In a development that would extend the limits of the Soviet Union's liberalization drive, a leading Soviet publisher said yesterday that he was negotiating to publish a novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, was expelled from the Soviet Union 14 years ago for his powerful writings about the horrors of the Soviet system in such novels as One Day in the Lije of Ivan Denisovich. Any decision to publish Solzheni tsyn's works here would constitute a major reversal of a longstanding ban in his works, viewed as among the most extensive and vivid condemnations of the repression that characterized the Stalin era. Yesterday, the editors of the prestigious literary journal Novy Mir said they were negotiating to publish Sol-zhenitsyn's Cancer Ward, a novel set in a Soviet hospital in Tashkent in the time of Joseph Stalin.

"Everything should be clear in about a week or 10 days," Novy Mir editor Sergei P. Zalygin said. Another member of the Novy Mir staff said that publication of another Solzhenitsyn novel, first Circle, also was under consideration. Vladimir G. Karpov, first secretary of the official Soviet Writers Union, said at a news conference yesterday that he believed it was "possible that Solzhenitsyn will be published." He even hinted that Solzhenitsyn would be allowed to return to the Soviet Union, although he doubted that an official invitation would be extended.

"Maybe Solzhenitsyn and others who were labeled dissidents will simply want to come back," Karpov said. "If Solzhenitsyn wants to come back and help, then he is welcome. But if a person has lied and slandered our country from abroad and wants to come back to do it from here, then there is no place for him." Novy Mir has a long tradition of publishing controversial works. It published some of Solzhenitsyn's early writings in the 1960s, including Ivan Denisovich, but failed in its efforts to publish others. Since Mikhail S.

Gorbachev came to power three years ago, Novy Mir has published several previously banned writers, including Boris Pas ternak, the author of Dr. Zhivago. Beginning this year, works by writers who left the Soviet Union under the rule of the late Leonid I. Brezhnev have also been published, including poetry by Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky and the late Alexander Galich. The current negotiations to publish Solzhenitsyn's works unfold against a backdrop of increasing criticism of the Stalinst era.

Solzhenitsyn, who has lived for the last decade jj a 50-acre estate in Vermont, came to prominence in the 1960s with publication of Ivan Deni- sovich, a descn, of the harsh conditions in the labor camps In 77ie Gulag Archipelago, he expanded on the theme of state repression. Solzhenitsyn was arrested in 1945, while serving as an army captain on the German front and was sentenced to eight years in a labor camp for criticizing Stalin in a letter to a friend. In 1970 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and four years later was expelled to West Germany, where he lived for a time before moving to Switzerland and then to the United States. International news in brief Soviet communists convene for unprecedented session llllilllli W'--- 111 v' i i 'turn! i 1 I ''I I ill f'4 After a Gorbachev speech and organbational matters, the doors will close to the public. Wliat happens next is anybody's guess.

signal that much of the important work would take place after the conference. Does that make this week's event a giant pep rally for perestroika Is it meant to send the Gorbachev team out on the field with new plays for party reform and ready for the big showdown at the 28th Party Congress two years hence? No one can say. For all the delegates know, the conference might do no more than than air some new ideas, without actually acting on them. This much is certain: At 10 o'clock this morning there will be opening remarks by a Politburo member, most likely Gorbachev. Then the conference will elect certain steering bodies, the most important being a presidium, which will run the event and decide which of the delegates gets to speak.

Alter a conference agenda, timetable and time limits for speakers are approved, the presidium will be seated and the keynote address by Gorbachev will begin. When that will end is anyone's guess. An official source yesterday said Gorbachev's opening statement ran to 150 pages, though he added that it might be pared down. Delegates will be voting on various procedural matters, and they probably will vote on resolutions as well. Voting will be by show of hands, according to Yuri Sklyarov, head of the Central Committee's propaganda department.

The delegates will be broken into eight sections and counted by specially appointed monitors. Only today's opening session and the closing day, whenever that is, will be broadcast live on Soviet television. Full accounts of the speeches will be printed in the next day's newspapers, as will the texts of speeches by those delegates for whom time on the rostrum could not be found. Only a handful of Soviet journalists will be on the scene, and no foreign reporters will be permitted in the hall or to see closed-circuit broadcasts of the sessions. SOVIET UNION, from 1-A party will tai-o the conference is completely unsettled.

The starting point will be today's keynote speech by Gorbachev, which is expected to expand on the Central Committee's published "theses," or proposals, for reform and perhaps offer a firm vision of the Kremlin chief's post-per-estroika Soviet Union. Bikkenin said the purpose of the conference was to reduce the "alienation" of the public from power. That may be a good idea, but it won't be an easy task: The Soviet Communist Party, after all, has about 20 million members, only about 7 percent of the population. The aim of the "theses" is to lessen that estrangement by limiting the terms of senior officials up to the party leader and by transferring power from the party to elected councils called Soviets from the Supreme Soviet, the nation's parliament, down to local people's Soviets. But many party members want re-; form to go much further, and some-' thing like one million proposals have been mailed to the Central Committee in recent weeks.

Those include such radical ideas as setting up a system for popularly electing a president and making the party leader merely an administrator; allowing economic autonomy to the 15 republics that make up the Soviet Union, and eliminating the requirement that important government officials be party members. One proposal favored by Gorbachev but not listed in the theses is a mandatory retirement age for party officials. This is eertain to be debated at the conference. "Quite specific proposals will be contained in the main report Iby Gorbachev," said Gyorgy Smirnov, director of tlr 'ral Committee's Institute o' sm-Leninism. "More chang proposed." Many of the posals relate to loosening the grip the party holds on all aspects of Soviet life.

But those ideas will run smack into conservative views, which declare that the party is the anchor of the socialist system and cannot be torn from its mooring without setting the whole country adrift. "The party is the leader; it answers for everything in politics, in the economy and in the ideological sphere," said Viktor Afanasyev, editor-in-chief of the official party newspaper Pravda during a Sunday night television interview. "Leaders should be elected through democratic methods. But the party must direct the process. Otherwise it will end up in chaos." Afanasyev acknowledged during a news conference yesterday that the pace of perestroika although not the need for it was still subject to strenuous debate in the ruling Politburo.

He himself is an example of how even those who support perestroika are wary: Asked why he did not publish an account of an anti-KGB street demonstration in Moscow on Saturday, he said the event was no more remarkable than various other demonstrations that have taken place here. "Besides," he wid, "We cannot print in Pravda, 'Down with the KGB." We believe that the KGB is needed. It should be under the control of our party, maybe to a greater degree than it is now. But we need such institutions." "Such institutions" have been the instruments of past repressions, applied in particular to those who op--posed the will of the party. Bikkenin spoke yesterday of a need for the party conference to create "guarantees" that what a person thinks and says cannot land him in the gulag.

And Veniamin Yakovlev, director of the Institute of Soviet Legislation, said in a recently published interview, "We believe that after the party conference, perestroika and the perfection of the legal system will get a new boost." Yakovlev's comment appeared to 1988-89 New Jersey Expenses 1.300 0.515 0.248 Environmental protection Other Surplus 3.500 Associated Press promoting party conference. N.J. legislators agree on $11.8 billion budget Italy links a Japanese to be bing NAPLES, Italy Italian police said yesterday that they had fingerprints of an alleged Japanese Red Army guerrilla wanted in connection with an April 14 car bombing that killed five people outside a U.S. military club in Naples. The police told a news conference that FBI investigators had identified 12 fingerprints on a rental car form for the vehicle used in the bombing as belonging to Junzo Okudaira.

Italian authorities have already issued an international arrest warrant for Okudaira and a second alleged Japanese Red Army guerrilla, Fusako Shi-genobu. "The results are excellent and they confirm the presence of Okudaira in Naples," said the city's anti-terrorist police chief, Romano Argenio. Okudaira previously was identified by witnesses from photographs as the man who rented the white Ford Fiesta that exploded outside the club while a U.S. Navy party was in full swing. Four Italians and an American servicewoman were killed and 15 people were i- in the blast.

ILS. frigate, damaged in gul heading home on cargo ship DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Salvage tugs yesterday floated the mine-damaged U.S. Frigate Samuel B. Roberts onto a special cargo ship that will carry it from the Persian Gulf to its home port for repairs. The tugs took several hours to ease the 453-foot warship above the submerged deck of the Dutch cargo vessel Mighty Servant II.

After the deck of the Mighty Servant is raised above sea level, it and the Roberts will begin a 40-day piggy-back journey to Newport, R.I. The Roberts struck a mine off Qatar on April 14 that tore a 30-foot hole in the hull, inju- '0 seamen. The United States -an for planting the mine, days later, U.S. warships cu. six Iranian ships in a battle that followed the retaliatory destruction of two Iranian oil platforms.

Menachem Begin's son plans to seek a seat in parliament Associated Press JERUSALEM The son of former Prime Minister Menachem Begin said yesterday that he would run for a parliament seat as a candidate of the right-wing Herut Party, which was founded by his father. Benjamin Zeev Begin, 44, a geologist, not only looks like his father but has some of his fiery oratorical style. His announcement signaled a long-anticipated move into politics that party leaders hope will attract new voters to the Herut Party, a senior partner in the ruling Likud coalition. The older Begin, 74, a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, has lived a reclusive existence in Jerusalem since stepping down from the prime ministership in 193. i Ms father, Benjamin Begin ob -elinquishing the Israeli-occi Bank and Gaza strip to th -stinians.

is planned six. Both McGill and Ralph Smith, Clayton's chief of staff, said they expected the team to be established by September but had no idea when it would complete its review. McGill said the commission intended to appoint outside experts to the team so "new blood" could assess the situation. Smith did not specify the school district's intentions. But he did say the team would have to consider fundamental issues such as what "maximum feasible desegregation" really is, given the city's demographic makeup, and what constitutes a desegregated school.

Under Clayton's desegregation plan, students are bused voluntarily to schools outside their neighborhood to increase desegregation. Most of the students who take advantage of the system arr and are bused to schools in 1 least. While few aildren have chosen to be bustw predominantly black schools, several schools in integrated neighborhoods whose school populations were predominantly black attracted enough local white students to desegregate. Education BUDGET, from 1-A posal, which Kean unveiled in January. The two parties united in opposition to Kean's proposal to boost the Jminimum teacher's salary from to $22,000.

This proposal one of the most dramatic elements of Kean's original spending plan would have cost $30 million. Critics have said it eventually could trigger tax hikes in some communities to pay for the salaries. The legislative leaders also agreed to put aside $18 million to pick up a substantial share of the cost of running courts in the Garden State's 21 counties. The largest single change in the budget proposal actually was thrashed out this spring, when Kean and leaders of both chambers agreed to add $50 million to the budget to help the state's most distressed cities and towns. Though the budget calls for no broad-based tax hikes, it includes a 2V2-cent hike in the state fee on a gallon of gasoline.

That increase, approved in December by the legislature, will take effect Friday, at the Soldiers march under a banner Sklyarov said that the conference procedures were intended to ensure the greatest possible amount of glas-nost, or openness, on the part of the delegates. "The atmosphere should be free," he said. "People should not feel like defraying the local cost ol garbage disposal and beach protection. Among the ideas under debate are fee hikes on such things as hotel-room rentals, non-biodegrable containers such as styrofoam cups, and property sales. The impasse in the Assembly over the bill began when Democrats, outnumbered 42-38 in the lower chamber, demanded that the Republicans agree to help override the veto anticipated from Kean on a bill to give municipalities $100 million to offset the cost of garbage disposal.

Kean is expected to conditionally veto the bill, which is sponsored by state Senate President John F. Russo Ocean), on grounds that it should not become law until it is tied to a companion funding measure. The budget as endorsed by legislative leaders reserves no money for the plan. After Assembly Speaker Chuck Hardwick Union) said he could not meet their demand, the Democrats refrained from voting to suspend the rules to allow immediate consideration of the budget bill sent over from the Senate. The Republi Echols, chairman of an ad hoc Human Relations Commission panel that recommended a finding that "maximum feasible desegregation" had not been achieved, said the provision could set a dangerous precedent by implying that discrimination should be remedied only if it is affordable to do so.

"The settlement team should be totally unfettered," Echols said. McGill defended the inclusion of the clause. "It does not mean to say to the school district that you're off the hook if money is not in the budget," he said. He said the commission's joining the school district on this point is a "valuable tool" to impress those in a position to pay for additional desegregation measures primarily the state legislature. During the December hearings, the district threatened to sue the commission in federal court if it attempted to impose additional desegregation measures on the city schools.

Clayton said the district would follow the lead of several other big cities that have sued state governments, alleging that the governments played an active role in per they must censor what they say because of its effect. They should concentrate on the essence of their remarks. "Please do not think that we are trying to conceal something from the international public." cans, however, are expected to have the votes tomorrow to permit a vote on the budget, regardless of what stance the Democrats take. Kean administration officials and legislative budget experts agree that much of the $1.3 billion proposed hike in spending was, in effect, a given even before they picked up their calculators. For instance, the $300 million increase in schools spending was dictated in large measure by a funding formula set up a decade ago that permits poorer school systems to call upon the state for increased aid to pull their spending up with wealthier districts.

After education, the next biggest jump in state spending is to go into the Medicaid program, the healthcare program for people, mostly children, on welfare. The state anticipates spending about $150 million more next fiscal year on Medicaid. The state also has budgeted about $135 million in new spending under contracts with its 78,000 employees, most of whom are in line for a 5 percent pay raise in September. new review petuating segregation through such policies as drawing school district lines to separate cities and suburbs. Cities have also sued states across the country on issues involving resources, arguing that states should pay for programs they mandate.

Philadelphia spends about $50 million a year on desegregation primarily transportation costs and programs promoting intergroup harmony and teacher training of which very little comes from either the state or federal government. McGill acknowledged that the commmission included the directive to consider financial implications as a way to avoid an inevitable lawsuit by the school district that would have dragged out the issue for years. The 1983 "memo of understanding" allowed Clayton to proceed with her voluntary plan, with a review in four years. If the commission and the school district still disagreed on the extent of desegregation, the settlement team would be set up. Two members will be appointed by the school district and two by the commission.

Each party will also submit three additional names, and the court will choose a chair from those Phila. school desegregation plan criticized, and budget proposal In billions of dollars Revenues 1.800 3.400 0230 Casino revenues 0.217 Cigarette tax 2.800 0.525 Income tax Lottery 1.7U0 Corporate tax The Philadelphia Inquirer prove the state's highways, bridges and mass-transit systems. In addition, a consensus appetrs to be building behind other fee increases in the coming fiscal year, to raise money for such purposes as only 24 percent of the city's public school students are white and would not impose any mandatory measures. "The Board of Education is confident that the establishment of this settlement team will be yet another step in affirming what we in the school district already know that within the constraints of the demographics of our city, the school district has established and is carrying out a workable voluntary desegregation program," Mattleman said in a statement. The Board of Education yesterday voted unanimously to approve the agreement, calling it a "joint stipulation." The Human Relations Commission, in a meeting here yesterday, voted 9-1 in favor, with commissioner Alvin Echols dissenting.

Echols, a North Philadelphia lawyer and a member of the commission since 1968, objected to a provision that requires the settlement team to explore the "financial implications of any and all recommendations." That provision calls for exploring whether state and federal gover-ments that mandate desegregation should pay for more of the costs. 1.00 Surplus I Other Sales JL tax 78.57VN. 0.366 ueoi service 0.720 Transportation 0.755 Pensions, benefits 0.974 2.400 Law enforcement, prisons Higher education Health start of the fiscal year, and bring the total state tax on gasolie to 10 Vj cents. Kean has said that the levy would cost most drivers less than $20 a year and would raise $100 million to im- ent definition of desegregation, contended that only 43 schools were desegregated and said that regardless of which definition is used the district fell short of its own 1983 goal of 104 desegregated schools. The commission states that because the school district is nearly two-thirds black, a predominantly white school must have at least 40 percent black students, regardless of the number of other minorities, to be "desegregated." Thomas McGill, the commission chairman and a Philadelphia lawyer, said he was encouraged by the establishment of the settlement team.

"This is an effort to work together for the benefit of the schoolchildren of Philadelphia instead of working against each other," he said. "We've been at this for 20 years. We don't think the results are positive for either side. We hope this is a new opportunity for results to be achieved that are much greater than those seen in the past." Board of Education President Herman Mattleman said he was confident that the team would conclude that the district was doing everything possible given the fact that vy i VPJ50 PLAN, from 1-A feasible within the demographic, geographic, political and fiscal realities of the city, the commission and school officials said. The team will also study whether some mandatory measures, such as involuntary busing, can enhance desegregation or will be as Clayton has contended counterproductive.

Both sides described the appointment of the special team as "historic" because it is inaugurating a new and what officials said probably would be the last phase of the protracted effort to desegregate the city's schools. The appointment of such a team was unprecedented when it was provided for in an October 1983 "memo of understanding" that gave Clayton three years to try her voluntary plan. That plan was instituted in the 1984-85 school year 's reviewed during five day; ings in December. At those hearings, the district contended that 86 of its 252 schools were desegregated, defining desegregated schools as having between 25 percent and 60 percent white students. But the commission, using a differ.