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...Soviet press over the adequacy and execution of the reforms, introduced with much fanfare in 1965, that were intended to bring more flexibility into the ponderous, centrally controlled Soviet economy. In a secret speech last month, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev severely criticized the economy's performance. Last week Pravda, reflecting his words, conceded that the Soviet economy is in serious trouble because of widespread waste, bureaucratic mismanagement, buck-passing and loafing workers-despite the reforms...
...birthday parties. Factory workers and farm hands promised to double, triple and quadruple their production norms as a present to their leader. The Italian Communists sent an Alfa Romeo sports car to the Kremlin, while the French party dispatched a chromium-plated racing bicycle. For the next eight months, Pravda's pages had room for little except birthday greetings...
...dissidents' worst fears were unfounded. In its birthday editorial, Pravda criticized Stalin for "diverging from the Leninist principles of collective leadership," which resulted in "unfounded reprisals against prominent party, state and military figures." Shorn of its jargon, the statement means that the present collective leadership is not at all tempted to return to the principal feature of Stalinism: absolute one-man rule, reinforced by mass police terror. The men in the Kremlin well know that the Stalinist system would devour those who set it in motion again, as it once devoured tens of thousands of Stalin's colleagues...
...newsletter's prediction about Stalin seem more significant. Issue No. 10, which has just begun to circulate in Russia, reports that the Soviet leaders are planning a major campaign to "rehabilitate" Stalin on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of his birth next Dec. 21. Major articles in Pravda and Izvestia are in preparation, together with a four-volume edition of his works. Posters and a statue are also being made ready for the event. As if to confirm the Chronicle's prediction, two pictures of Stalin last week appeared in a photo exhibit of Soviet history...
...Egypt's case, the bulk of the equipment has been supplied by the Soviet Union since the 1967 war and includes MIG-21s, T-55 tanks and SA-2 surface-to-air missiles. None of it seemed to help. "It would be absolutely wrong," conceded Russia's Komsomolskaya Pravda last week, "to conceal the shortcomings in the Egyptian army." Morale is low. Once the Arab rallying cry was: "Push Israel into the sea!" Recently, reflecting the Arab feeling of futility, it has been: "Let Israel take all the land she wants, then choke...