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...elegance and sophistication, Sadat often uses peasant imagery. Recently he compared the actions of Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin during Nasser's funeral to the behavior of the people of his native village. "We are farmers," he said, "and when one of us goes to express condolences, he takes along a tray of food for the house of the deceased out of courtesy. So the Soviet Union came with their tray to the funeral of Gamal." The Russian tray, however, was scarcely filled with food. After post-funeral discussions with Sadat, the Russians accelerated their shipments of military supplies to Egypt...
...SALT TALKS. After a conversation with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, Muskie said on a television show that he had told the Russian leader that he and his colleagues in Congress were trying to cut back U.S. arms spending -and that many Americans do not share President Nixon's views on dealing with the Soviet Union. Undercutting the SALT talks and undermining U.S. foreign policy? No, said Muskie, he was simply talking as a ''private citizen." The ploy is familiar: Richard Nixon used it when he hobnobbed with world leaders on a 1967 swing, ostensibly as a lawyer...
Moreover, the vaunted shift of production and resources to consumer goods, proclaimed by Brezhnev, turned out to be more apparent than real. Kosygin's figures revealed that such production is to increase between 44% and 48% over the next five years. But at the same time, the production of heavy industry-the "metal eaters," as Khrushchev used to say-will rise by almost the same amount. A considerable part of heavy-industry output goes to a defense establishment, which is roughly the same size as America's. Since the Soviet gross national product is only half as large...
Elusive Goal. The real catch, however, came in Kosygin's disclosure that 95% of the increase in consumer-goods output is expected to come from "increased and more efficient labor production." Labor productivity, which currently averages only half that of U.S. workers, has always been an elusive goal for the Soviet economic planners. At the 1966 Congress, Brezhnev sought to solve the problem by demanding harder work, better discipline and an end to drunkenness. Now the Soviet rulers have dropped such exhortation in favor of incentives-the promise of more consumer goods. But the new incentives, unaccompanied by economic...
...largely to an overcentralized and hugely inefficient planning system. The most promising Soviet reforms to date were the so-called Libermann reforms of the mid-1960s in which profit and market forces were allowed to play a role in judging the performance of industrial enterprises. At the time, Kosygin endorsed the reforms. In his speech last week, he pronounced the end of such "erroneous conceptions that substitute market regulation for the guiding role of state centralized planning...