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| | Release Tobin, Russian parole board says |
 | | Moscow — American Fulbright scholar John Tobin won a recommendation that he be released as early as today from the Russian prison where he is serving a drug sentence, and Russian authorities appeared eager to end his high-profile imprisonment. |
 | | Tobin, 24, who grew up in New York, became eligible for parole yesterday, the halfway point of his one-year sentence, and the parole board unanimously recommended release, satisfied by his behavior at the prison in the southern town of Rossosh. |
 | | The recommendation must be confirmed by a court, which is scheduled to convene this morning at the prison. |
| www.recordonline.com /archive/2001/08/03/aptobin3.htm (378 words) |
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