The author suggests to improve and to hasten the process of publications preparation for IPL journal. He asks editors to give their opinion for his five suggestions, in particular, a reduction of a paper size and a term of paper consideration.

The chairman of IFIP TC-2 invites the addressee to the next meeting which will be held at the Hotel Solec in Warshaw, Poland, in June 20 - 24, 1988. Enclosures are: 1)formal description of programming concepts, 2)registration and hotel reservation forms.

The author regrets that the addressee flew over Novosibirsk. He asks about the addressee's leaving for Michigan. (There is a riddle: postcard sent to Michigan returned to the author from state NY.)

The author urges to order the report "Parallel Processing: the Challenge of New Computer Architectures" by sending the order form on the enclosed leaflet. Contents and sample pages of the report are in the attachment.

The author remembers Novosibirsk with pleasure and sadness. She sends the copy of the promised letter about joint projects to Kurdiumov.

The authors give the promised outline of seven possible joint projects. They hope that this letter will assist the addressee to prepare the first draft of a "document of understanding".

to a copy of Turski & Maibaum's book "The specification of Computer Programs" (under separate cover)

The authors ask the addressee to write the letter to Prof. Nivat about the french-soviet cooperation group in computer science.

"Finding the Number of Solutions of a Satisfiability Problem. An Exact and a statistical approach."

The author with pleasure remembers about conversations with the addressee in Castiglioncello. He hopes to the addressee's consent to join the editorial board of the journal CPSR. He asks to write an article about the computerization of Soviet schools.

The author thanks for the kind letter and for the interesting paper. He sends the paper with some slight changes, mostly linguistic modifications, for a final editing by the addressee.

The author informs of dispatching the all typing kits to the individual authors who should return their complete article to the addressee no later than 1 January 1988.

A.Ershov is invited to the 12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'88). It will be held in Budapest, Hungary, in August 22-27, 1988. A Registration form and a brochure about the conference are enclosed.

of the paper "Automatic Program Specialization: a Re-Examination from Basic Principles" by Neil Jones.

The author invites the addressee to be a member of the International Program Committee of FCT'89 and to participate in the meeting of the Selection Committee (March 21-22, 1989, Szeged). The attachment is a preliminary list of topics to be covered by FCT'89.

The author thanks for the letter of 11th Novemberand the enclosed addresses of the authors. She wants to know the date she can expect to receive the complete manuscripts for publication.

Pursuant to his letter of 25 September, the author asks the permission to visit the addressee's institute on 6 - 7 April, 1988, with a group of 25 students and 5 scientists. He has written the similar letters to Prof. Tseytin in Leningrad and Prof. Petrov in Moscow.

The author informs that the russian translation of "The World of Programming Languages" (Marcotty/Ledgard) is already undertaking by Radio y Svyaz Publishing House.

The author continues the theme of the addressee's letter of 26.02.1987 about proposed visit to the AT&T Bell Lab. They remember about previous fruitful visit in 1978 and are very glad to meet with A.Ershov again. They are ready to do everything required for this.

The author thanks for the addressee's leading a workshop on Partial evaluation and Mixed Computation. He asks to write a short preface of the Japanese journal "The Computer Software" (any thing the addressee wants to talk to Japanese computer society).