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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stage Five-Year Plan to improve the economy that Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov unveiled last week reflected the tug-of-war going on within the leadership. Ryzhkov made clear that his approach represented a "third alternative" to making minor corrections in central planning or plunging headlong into a free-market economy. Over the next two years, he said, the state intended to use "rigid directive measures" to reduce the national deficit from about 10% to 2.5% of GNP and increase supplies of consumer goods. A real market with varied forms of property ownership would take shape after 1992, he added, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Face-Off on Reform | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...Premier Miklos Nemeth of Hungary said there were unconfirmed reports of protests in other Romanian cities and of soldiers being placed on alert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Reported Killed in Romanian Unrest | 12/19/1989 | See Source »

...proposed reforms were announced by Deputy Premier Jan Carnogursky, a dissident lawyer who was released from jail two weeks ago and on Sunday was named to the first government led by non-Communists in 41 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czechs to Elect President by January | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

Despite Gorbachev's plea for urgent action on the economy, a long debate over procedural matters threw the Congress behind schedule, delaying Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov's economic report. That report apparently will be based on a long-term plan developed by his deputy, Leonid Abalkin, that includes making the ruble convertible, selling off unprofitable state enterprises and developing a stock market...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet Parliament Rejects Reform Efforts | 12/13/1989 | See Source »

...compromise, the Interior Ministry, which runs the nation's hated secret and uniformed police, will be run jointly by a former dissident, the new Communist premier and a Communist Party member proposed by the opposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czechs Rally in Support of New Regime | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

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