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...evoking the name of Andropov, who is widely believed to have been responsible for Gorbachev's rapid rise through the hierarchy, the General Secretary signaled his intention to pursue the cautious program of bureaucratic and economic reform that has been desultorily followed for the past two years. The Soviet Union, Gorbachev said, had to make a "decisive turn" and switch the economy to the "tracks of intensive development." Hinting at the widening technological gap between the West and the Soviet bloc, Gorbachev asked his countrymen to push for scientific and technical excellence by applying socialist economic principles "in a creative...
...rapid rise through party ranks suggests an adroit politician who has been able to advance under leaders as different in style as Brezhnev and Andropov...
...innovations that might stray from their control. While the Soviets have been able to produce some large, sophisticated computers, the smaller machines found in so many plants, offices and homes in the West are unavailable. Communist ideology is partly responsible. Proliferation of computers for private use would mean the rapid circulation of information, and that is not something the Kremlin particularly wants to encourage. Nonetheless, the Soviets are reportedly looking to buy large numbers of Western-made personal computers, apparently for use in schools and scientific institutions...
...anything--too tame. Like all British comedy, the pace of this film seems as thick and trudging as cold plum pudding. Bennett spends the first half hour erecting the framework of setting and plot within which his characters work An American used to getting his hamour in rapid-fire bursts can find this very tedious indeed...
...distinction is important. Capitalism--in the sense of big corporations, organized labor and rapid movement of money--is unlikely to come to China in the foreseeable future. Yet one of the great maxims of classical Marxism, that market forces are somehow the source of wickedness, has been discarded. Last October, on the heels of impressive economic gains in the rural areas, the Communist Party's central committee plenum announced reforms as well for the urban economy in which market forces will play a decisive role. Instead of a market economy, Peking's theoreticians now talk of a "socialist commodity economy...