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...point -- reform has been marginal -- and it explains Gorbachev's latest, boldest move. Next month will be the fifth anniversary of his ascension. By Soviet reckoning it is the end of Gorbachev's personal first five-year plan. It is therefore a time of judgment. The judgment is harsh. The lot of the Soviet consumer is not just stagnating but deteriorating. Efficiency, incentive, initiative, competitiveness, productivity, quality, pride, "self-accountability" -- these new buzz words are beginning to sound as hollow as the old slogans about the glory of socialist labor...
...House Tom Foley expressed "reservations" about the idea. Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, a Chicago Democrat who has felt the wrath of senior-citizens groups over the catastrophic-health-care surtax, dubbed the proposal a "disaster." Democrats feared that the budget squeeze on other domestic programs, already harsh, would be still worse if the Government had to go hunting for billions to replace the lost Social Security revenue...
Despite the harsh words directed at his programs over the next three days, Gorbachev, who has been known to lose his temper in public, betrayed little emotion. He made a point of exchanging pleasantries with Politburo member Yegor Ligachev, the de facto leader of the conservative opposition, when Ligachev returned to his seat after delivering a demagogic rebuttal to Gorbachev's platform. When the vote to approve the document was finally taken -- and passed with only one dissenting vote, from populist Boris Yeltsin -- the Soviet leader broke with tradition and invited the 108 candidate members of the Central Committee...
After a grim childhood and some harsh early jobs, a young servant named Mary Reilly finds employment in a comfortable London house. Mary's literacy -- unusual among 19th century domestics -- enables her to keep a diary. In it she jots down the details of her work and notes the kind attentions of her master, a gentle, reclusive physician who spends a lot of time in his laboratory. Her narrative is well under way before she happens to drop his name, which is, of course, Dr. Jekyll...
...side of radical reform, instead of straddling the fence between liberals and conservatives. In fact, a second rumor was circulating in Moscow last week of an imminent purge of the party's ruling Politburo. The most frequently cited name was that of conservative Yegor Ligachev, who came under harsh attack in the pages of the weekly Moscow News. Deputy editor in chief Vitali Tretyakov lambasted Ligachev for supporting "the most unhealthy elements in socialism" and proposing solutions that come "not from the achievements but the mistakes of the past...