Word: gorbachev
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...your relations with Gorbachev...
...Gorbachev consulted your association...
...long conversation recently in which we covered many subjects, including major political issues. Our future contacts will depend on how well the association works. President Gorbachev will need us if we can produce interesting, useful and original ideas. But if we limit ourselves to collecting membership dues, then nobody will want...
...Gorbachev reached the same conclusion, and beginning in 1988 he ordered cutbacks in both military production and manpower. He also directed defense plants to convert further to civilian production. They have always had nonmilitary production lines to take up the slack in weapons cycles, but now they were told to increase the proportion of consumer goods from 40% of their total output to 60% by 1995. If the military-industrial complex was as competent as it claimed, Gorbachev wanted to use it as the locomotive to power his economic reforms...
After parliament abolished the Communist Party's monopoly on political power last year, radical democrats ran for and took control of city councils in the military-industrial bastions of Moscow, Leningrad and Sverdlovsk. Last September, when it looked as if Gorbachev was actually going to abandon central economic planning and accept the so-called 500-Day Plan for a market economy, the military empire struck back...