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Gomez-Ibanez says the center's additional resources will allow him to continue his research on growth management in central cities and suburbs, noting that almost all the planning in Boston suburbs is under local supervision. Because this planning creates tension between neighboring areas, he says he is trying to find a strategy that "promotes orderly development...
Earlier, Melnikov had said: "Those who in the past actively promoted the policy of stagnation may not serve and work on the central party and government bodies now, at the time of perestroika. They should answer for everything and do so personally...
Melnikov, the balding, bespectacled party leader in the Russian federation region of Komi, said restructuring of the party's policy-making Central Committee is proceeding too slowly and that Communists and other Soviets want people responsible for stagnation brought to account...
Gorbachev floated a variety of trial balloons before the conference, such as the notion that party officials should be limited to two five-year terms in office. At his first mention of that idea last year, he was careful not to include the powerful Central Committee or Politburo in the suggestion. But the & concept caught on and is now part of the reform proposals to be aired at the meeting. Gorbachev himself, as well as all Central Committee and Politburo members, would presumably be subject to the two-term limit, though there is a controversial loophole: officeholders...
Even the suspicious West will be an interested spectator as the conference debates a set of ten "theses" that were approved last month by the Central Committee. On the basis of the debate, the conference will pass a series of resolutions, probably five in all, dealing with such issues as legal reform, nationalities and a general political resolution. They will then become official party policy. The theses include a manifesto of freedoms that suggests a cross between the U.S. Bill of Rights and the "Socialism with a human face" of Czechoslovakia's Alexander Dubcek, which was crushed by Soviet tanks...