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Gorbachev on Friday presented the compromise plan, written by Shatalin and another leading Soviet economist, Abel Aganbegyan. It contains many elements of Shatalin's radical 500-day plan but would move at a slower pace and not disturb the central government's power to levy taxes...
...with Ryzhkov and has even warned against a destabilizing shakeup of the central government. Gorbachev has suggested a compromise: an economic package following the Shatalin group guidelines, with amendments taken from the Ryzhkov proposals. The unified program, which will be prepared by a third group, led by economist Abel Aganbegyan, will be submitted for debate to the republican and national parliaments. The Russians, for their part, have made clear that they want only the Shatalin plan and not the mixed version, which Yeltsin said was like mating "a hedgehog and a snake...
...social contract in which, as Soviets cynically joke, "they pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work." The probability, nevertheless, is that Gorbachev will become more, not less, impatient. "Shortages exist because we are moving too slowly, halting and stepping off the road too often," says Abel Aganbegyan, an economist who helped shape Gorbachev's ideas...
...that ultimate Kremlin status symbol of privilege and power will soon be a memory for thousands of bureaucrats. The Soviet Council of Ministers last week ordered the government's automobile fleet slashed by 40% in Moscow and 20% elsewhere in the country beginning July 1. Says Soviet Economist Abel Aganbegyan: "This is a way to pursue social justice. Politicians must expect to lose their privileges...
...seminars held sometimes in the Central Committee offices, sometimes in a dacha outside Moscow. The sessions started with problems of agriculture but quickly developed into freewheeling discussions of what was wrong with the economy in general and how it might be fixed. Among the participants were Economist Abel Aganbegyan, who had been urging decentralization and a wider role for market incentives since the mid-1960s, and Tatyana Zaslavskaya, a leading sociologist. Zaslavskaya recalls one encounter with Gorbachev: "I sat next to him. It is incredible what power and drive emanate from him. One feels as if it were a strong...