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Gorbachev's turn to the right has been accelerating for several months. Some analysts date it from last October, when he lost the support of the country's liberals by backing away from the radical 500-day economic-reform plan put forward by his former adviser Stanislav Shatalin. It became obvious that he was relying on the security apparatus to enforce Moscow's will and was handing over the future of perestroika to the party and its military-industrial complex. While those power centers are still strong, they are also the most interested in preserving the status...
...since last December like so many bottles of vodka at a wild bash. What especially angered Yeltsin and other crash reformers was their feeling that Gorbachev had betrayed them, first by saying he approved of the 500-Day Plan devised by a team under presidential councilor and economist Stanislav Shatalin, then by opting for a much vaguer, slower schedule outlined by Gorbachev adviser Abel Aganbegyan. The compromise attempted to reconcile the imperatives of reform with the fears of many central-government leaders -- army generals and KGB men not the least among them -- of turbocharging a broken-down sleigh...
...three options: go it alone entirely, with its own army, currency and customs system, which would mean, in effect, secession; enter into some new coalition with Gorbachev that edges out the U.S.S.R.'s most unpopular national leader, cautious Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov; or go ahead with a modified Shatalin program on Nov. 1 and wait for Gorbachev's plan to fail -- an outcome Yeltsin predicted would happen within six months at most. Carrying out Shatalin's full plan in Russia was evidently doomed by Gorbachev's decision to pull back from the proposal as long as the Kremlin would retain...
Gorbachev has decided to throw the issues out for public debate, arguing that "the people must make their choice." There seems little doubt, however, that Shatalin's radical 500-day program, with some modifications, will prevail. The most telling vote came last week in the parliament of the Russian Republic, led by Yeltsin, where deputies approved the basic outlines of the Shatalin package by a lopsided count of 213 to 2. They also issued an appeal to other parliaments across the nation to follow their lead in approving the plan as quickly as possible. Yeltsin added a proviso: "The adoption...
...that refrain must sound all too familiar to Gorbachev, who still seems to prefer that Ryzhkov jump rather than be pushed. Even though Gorbachev has come out in support of the Shatalin program, his proposed changes in the text suggest he also has a certain ambivalence about taking the final grand leap into a market economy. With tensions mounting across the country, whether cigarette riots in provincial Russia or border skirmishes in the Caucasus, Gorbachev cannot help being concerned about what might result from added chaos in the economy. Last week he sent out a presidential telegram to regional leaders...