to a list of abstracts of Linkoeping University publications written since 1985 to order some of them if the addressee is interested in.

The author hopes for the addressee's participation in the "Frontiers in Computing" conference, to be held in Amsterdam, December 9-11. The final programme of this conference is attached.

Special report "Mikhail Gorbachev's New Revolution" from the "U.S.News & World Report". The article's xerocopy is made in Copenhagen. A. Ershov is quoted in this article.

The author asks to examine a question about A.Ershov's business trip to Greece for a participation in the symposium which will be held in 1987, from 30 November to 8 December.

to the members of Working Group about some organizational problems of the Society on Informatics.

to registered airmail. The edition "The World of Programming Languages" by Margotty/Ledgard is sent.

The author asks to forward letters and pictures to his friends in Academgorodok, and to pass the video tape to V.Ivanchenko. He sends to the addressee the pictures of his daughter, coeval of the addressee's grand-daughter. He plans to return.

Attachments enclosed are: 1)"Instructions to Authors"; 2)A copy of the New Generation Computing journal; 3)Call for papers. International Conference on Fifth Generation Computer Systems (November 28-December 2, 1988 Tokyo, Japan).

The author reminds the addressee about a promise to write the article for the Finnish journal "DIMENSIO".

Greetings and wishes for the New Year.

A Guide to Elsevier Science Publishers.

The author suggests to participate in the Working Groupe 24 on Computer Analytics, asks the addressee's comments and proposals.

The author informs on his plans to visit China next summer and asks to arrange for him and his wife to visit an addressee in Novosibirsk on the way to China. He tells of his results of computing experiments.

Enclosed the addressee finds titles and abstracts of technical reports and reprints from the Technical University Berlin for 1987. It's suggested to order copies of these papers. Registration form for the participation in Sixth Workshop on Specification of Abstract Data Types is also attached.

The author conveys his thanks and appreciation for A.Ershov's visit. He suggests to maintain an on-going correspondence and to find an opportunity for collaboration in the area of training teachers in the use of new technologies.

The author, as the consulting editor of a series of Computer Science books, asks the addressee and his colleaques to make a contribution in the series from the soviet side. He would be interested to hear also what the addressee thinks about a multi-font wordprocessor developed in his Department.

In answer to the addressee's phone call, the author sends a listing of the issues published by Association for Computing Machinery. He asks to wait several weeks for delivery.

The advance program of 1988 ACM Conference on Computer Science.

The author asks to review his article "A new method for computing polynomial greatest common divisors" for a possible publication in IPL. He tells that his article was unreasonably rejected by the editor David Gries. The letter from the editor is attached.

"A new method for computing polynomial greatest common divisors" is enclosed in the Alkis G. Akritas' letter of 07.01.1987.