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10. Some Internal Affairs
I was working on the constitution from home. But I would often go to the Institute of National Economy, mainly to meet my acquaintances and fellows who heard about my activities and the university. They were finding it very difficult to believe and really wanted to understand more. A few people were very enthusiastic and were offering support.

While discussing different parts of the constitution with the rector of INEM Rahimov, and exchanging views on different problems, we began to know each other very closely. He offered me to take part at the INEM's Academic Council meetings and at the same

time said that he had given the order to prepare an office for me with my name on the door. I thanked him for his attention and said that-an office would be of great help. But I refused to "officialise" it and have my name on the door, since I was not yet an official person at this Institute and the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers had yet to be issued. Taking this into consideration and also bringing my busyness as an excuse I asked him to postpone my participation at the Institute's Academic Council meetings. He liked this tactful objection and saying "if any problems arise, please feel free to address them to me" - he patted me on the shoulder in a friendly manner.

The majority of my time was now spent on trying to understand and identify the ways of teaching and set major guidelines for developing a curriculum for four subjects outlined in the Council of Minister's draft resolution. I was not thinking about mathematics, the teaching of this subject was quite clear to me. It was regarding other subjects that I felt a need to learn more. I was either looking through different textbooks and articles, or studying the catalogs of well-known universities. I had to work especially hard on the program for Ecology department. Although I was sufficiently knowledgeable in ecology as a popular modem way of thinking, I had to discover the environmental studies for myself as a" systematized and integral science.

From that time onwards I had to constantly study to be able to understand various areas of science, their essence and various schools of thought closely, and project science into education. This pleasant duty was mobilizing my energy and refreshing my mind, keeping me "in a good shape" and as with my favorite speed chess, making me to come up with the quickest and most beneficial moves.

It seems that the first internal tension began during this time that I was working on the constitution. Saleh was talking to Rahim Rahimov one day and had mentioned that one office wouldn't be enough for us, to be able to function 'normally' we needed at least two offices. He would not give up and became quite stubborn during the discussion. Rahimov took it badly and considered it an undue pressure

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upon himself and immodesty on Saleh's side, and expressed his dissatisfaction. Saleh in his turn took Rahimov's objection as an injustice and could not help himself arguing with him. They both told me their side of the story and expressed their reproaches with each other. I was in quite an unpleasant situation, between fire and water. I was trying to calm them, explaining that there was no need to dramatize the situation and asked both to forget the resentment. But it appeared not to be an easy task.

I knew that if Saleh would go to Rahim muallim and apologize then we would be able to solve this conflict. But Saleh did not want reconciliation and was insisting that he never stepped beyond the boundaries of polite conversation. After this incident I noticed that Rahim muallim was colder in his relationship with me also. Perhaps he was thinking "one can expect anything from these people". Unfortunately, we never managed to erase this incident from our memories and hostility between Saleh and Rahim muallim persisted. Later it became a big obstacle in the way of the three of us working together.