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<text id=89TT1854>
<title>
July 17, 1989: American Notes:Chicago
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
July 17, 1989 Death By Gun
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 65
American Notes
CHICAGO
A Sweet Homecoming
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<p> When Abe Stolar left with his parents for the Soviet Union
in 1931, his native West Side Chicago neighborhood babbled with
Yiddish and Polish. Now Spanish fills the air around Humboldt
Park, Murray F. Tuley High School has become Jose De Diego
Academy, and the place where Stolar's home once stood is a
vacant lot. But to Stolar, 77, back last week after 58 years in
the U.S.S.R., it felt familiar. "It's wonderful," he said. "I
feel 60 years younger."
</p>
<p> His father vanished into the Stalinist terror of the 1930s,
but Stolar lived on. He served in combat with the Soviet army
in World War II, but he retained his U.S. citizenship. After the
war he worked as a translator and announcer for Radio Moscow.
In 1975 Stolar got permission to emigrate to Israel. But as he
and his family approached their plane, Soviet officialdom
snatched them back -- and covered them in bureaucratic darkness
until President Reagan took up their cause in 1985.
</p>
<p> Finally, nearly four years later, Stolar got the green
light to leave in March. He and his Soviet-born wife Gita
decided to return to his hometown on July 4. Once in the Windy
City, Stolar donned an I LOVE CHICAGO button, took in a baseball
game at Wrigley Field and mused, "I wouldn't be surprised if I
decided to move back here."
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