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Acknowledgments

Various points the present review concerns with have constantly been discussed with many our colleagues. We greatly acknowledge Prof. Anatol Cherepashchuk, Prof. Leonid Grishchuk, Prof. Ed van den Heuvel, Prof. Nikolai Shakura, Prof. Rashid Sunyaev, Prof. Kip Thorne, Prof. Alexander Tutukov, Dr. Lev Yungelson for discussions and encouragements, and Prof. Henning Jorgensen who kindly provided us with the access to the computer facilities of the Copenhagen University Observatory. We feel it necessary to mention many fruitful talks with late Dr. Victorij Schwartzman, whose attention and interest to our work had a great impact on our activity at early stages. We also have a pleasure to thank Dr. Victor Kornilov for the cooperation in designing the first variant of the Scenario Machine code. Special thanks to our young colleagues from the relativistic astrophysics department of Sternberg Astronomical Institute - Mr S.N.Nazin, E.Yu.Osminkin, S.B.Popov, I.E.Panchenko and Mrs V.Tatarintseva for their assistance.

The work was partially supported by INTAS grant No. 93-3364, grant of the Russian Fund for Basic Research No. 95-02-6053, grant JAP-100 from the International Science Foundation and Russian Government and the Center for Cosmoparticle Physics ``COSMION'' (Moscow, Russia).