The World - News from May 5, 1988

Soviet authorities have chosen the first group of Crimean Tatars who will be allowed to return to their homeland from Central Asia, the newspaper Pravda Vostoka reported. The latest edition of the Uzbekistan party daily to reach Moscow named eight workers from a small group it said will be allowed to start building houses for themselves in rural districts of the Crimean Peninsula next month. Government officials chose the first eight migrants from a list of candidates recommended by their employers, the newspaper reported. The Crimean Tatars were deported to Central Asia in 1944 by dictator Josef Stalin, who accused them of collaborating with the Nazi invaders during World War II.