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...here. America faces long-term structural problems that cannot be solved without making people worse off in the short run. Unfortunately, the political climate of the last 25 years has encouraged us to resist this conclusion. Ever since Lyndon Johnson told us that we could have both guns and butter, voters have placed a high political premium on hiding the bad news, and politicians have invented ingenious methods of concealing...
...major obsession in this city, haunted by memories of a grim 900-day Nazi blockade in World War II, is how to store food supplies for the coming winter. Rationing was imposed last week on meat products, sausage, butter and cooking oil to provide Leningrad residents with what city officials called a "guaranteed minimum" of scarce staples. In one downtown meat store, a middle-aged woman surveys refrigerator cases, empty of everything but boxes of sugared cranberries. "It's unbelievable!" she exclaims. "People continue to produce things, but there is nothing to buy. It's those democrats on the city...
...council deserves some of the blame for the economic mess. Even the most ardent reformers are growing exasperated with inexperienced, often incompetent deputies, who spend more time squabbling over plans to confiscate Communist property and change the name of the city back to St. Petersburg than debating bread-and-butter issues. Sobchak's efforts to crack the whip have provoked complaints of "authoritarianism." He in turn claims that "many of those who call themselves democrats have no notion of democracy...
...need it. Says one: "We would like to handle the distribution ourselves." As far as some Soviets are concerned, that would be just fine. As Victor Shinkaretsky, a Russian Deputy, put it last week, "As long as we are forced to beg for a foreign piece of bread with butter, let's invite in those who not only know how to produce but also how to distribute...
Gorbachev hopes he can cure the food crisis with a combination of strong presidential leadership and help from abroad. He privately approached Western leaders at last week's Paris summit conference with a grocery list that included such staples as pork, butter and powdered milk. The Supreme Soviet has given Gorbachev two weeks to prepare emergency measures to ensure that the state receives ample supplies of food from producers. Meanwhile, grumbling consumers have no choice but to continue playing the grim new national sport: scavenger hunting...