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...last year's 3.8%) through sharply increased productivity. The drafting was no easy task, Gorbachev told a meeting of the Communist Party's Central Committee, because "not all of our managers have broken away from inertia, from old approaches." One such mossback, presumably, was 74-year-old Nikolai Baibakov, who was ousted as the head of Gosplan, the Soviet economic planning committee. He was replaced by Nikolai Talyzin, 56, a former telecommunications engineer who was Moscow's representative to Comecon, the East bloc's common market. Also leaving the top leadership is Nikolai Tikhonov, 80, who retired from the Politburo...
When the name Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was first mentioned by Economic Planning Chief Nikolai Baibakov, an uneasy silence engulfed the hall. The speakers who followed made frequent references to Andropov and praised his Central Committee report; the 1,500 delegates listened silently or chatted among themselves. Finally, a resolution blaming the U.S. for "the drastic aggravation of the situation in the world" and supporting Andropov's foreign policy position was put forward, and the parliamentarians raised their arms in unison to approve...
...warning seemed to confirm recent Western intelligence assessments that the Soviets had temporarily shelved the idea of military intervention in favor of economic pressures. The presence in Warsaw last week of a high-level Soviet trade delgation, headed by Planning Chief Nikolai Baibakov, made that theory seem all the more credible...
While Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev whispered in the gallery behind the rostrum, Chief Soviet Planner Nikolai Baibakov manfully defended the progress of the current 1965-70 five-year plan. He conceded that next year there would be only a modest wage increase of 3% for factory and office workers and 4.6% for collective farmers. Nevertheless, Baibakov boasted that in comparison with 15 years ago, "every 100 families in 1970 will have 71 radios as against 61, 52 washing machines as against 21, and 32 refrigerators instead of only eleven." His list, however, could not mask...
...industrial production up 8.3%). The 1,510-odd delegates were visibly unimpressed. Instead, they complained bitterly about the shoddy quality of Soviet housing and the poor reliability of farm machinery, which plagues farmers with frequent breakdowns. As Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev looked on, Chairman Nikolai Baibakov, of the State Planning Committee, assured the angry delegates that he would take immediate action to correct those deficiencies. Obviously, if the Russians want to upgrade their consumer and industrial goods, they cannot embark on the construction of a multibillion-dollar antimissile network throughout the country...