Word: reform
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...second gust of reform to hit the Deep South in a month, similar to the election of Buddy Roemer as Governor of Louisiana, Mississippi's partner at the bottom of most measures of prosperity. Both men are young reformers with graduate degrees from Harvard who are dedicated to dispelling the tarnished establishments that have dominated their states' politics, beefing up education systems and aggressively seeking new forms of industry...
...Southeast, $23,100. That will cost the state close to $165 million, and he proposed, perhaps unrealistically, to fund the hike without raising taxes. His brashness alone might go a long way toward restoring his state's pride. When asked which state would serve as his model for education reform and economic development, he replied, "The one state that people ought to look at is Mississippi. We're gonna be an inspiration...
...speech was a letdown to some reform-minded Soviets who had been hoping for a more thorough, hard-hitting appraisal of the party's past mistakes. "I was very disappointed," said Mathematician Naum Meiman, 76, one of the country's most prominent dissidents. "The speech was the result of a compromise between Gorbachev and others in the leadership who are against a true evaluation of Stalin's role." Fellow Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov told callers after the address that "not everything satisfied me," adding, "I would have expected, and I hoped for, more." There were indications, in fact, that more...
...meeting of the policy-setting Central Committee, details of which subsequently surfaced in the Western press. On that occasion, Moscow Party Leader Boris Yeltsin, 56, a nonvoting member of the Politburo and a close Gorbachev ally, reportedly complained that bureaucratic foot dragging was frustrating his reform efforts in the capital and offered to resign. Politburo Ideologist Yegor Ligachev, 66, a leading conservative who has sought to restrain the pace of reform, replied with sharp criticism of Yeltsin's management. Yeltsin is expected to make a speech this week at a meeting of the Moscow party; whether or not he receives...
Many Western analysts saw Gorbachev's speech as a pragmatic compromise between these two wings. "Gorbachev has been made to walk a fine line," said Marshall Goldman, associate director of Harvard University's Russian Research Center. "The conservatives have said he's gone too far, while the reformers say he's not gone far enough. He's not able to do anything innovative at this point. The speech is an indication that he's had to scale back his plans for reform." Princeton University Political Scientist Stephen Cohen, however, called Gorbachev's performance a "major speech" that "attacked the entire...