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\textit{V. Alexeev} used properties of linear systems on Fano 3-folds to prove that every Fano 3-fold with terminal singularities and sufficiently big anticanonical linear system is birational to a terminal Fano 3-fold whose anticanonical divisor having canonical singularities [Compos. Math. 91, No.1, 91--116 (1994; Zbl 0813.14028)]. The reviewer used the similar idea together with results of \textit{F. Campana} and \textit{H. Flenner} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 440, 77--98 (1993; Zbl 0769.14014)] to prove rationality of non-Gorenstein Fano 3-folds with an integer Fano index and anticanonical degree bigger or equal than \(10\) [Contemp. Math. 207, 43--50 (1997; Zbl 0896.14019)]. The paper under review uses the similar idea to prove the rationality of Gorenstein Fano 3-folds having non-cDV points whose anticanonical linear system is base point free except few special cases like a quartic in \(\mathbb{P}^{4}\) or an intersection of a quadric and a cubic in \(\mathbb{P}^{5}\) etc. Note that all Gorenstein Fano 3-folds whose anticanonical linear system has base points were classified recently by \textit{P. Jahnke} and \textit{I. Radloff} [''Gorenstein Fano threefolds with base points in the anticanonical system'', Compos. Math., to appear.], and the problem of their rationality can be studied rather explicitly. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1051.00013].