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...wonder some experts in Moscow are predicting that the ruble will soon join the Soviet Union on history's trash heap. In an interview with the newspaper Rabochaya Tribuna, economist Yevgeni Petrakov foresaw the "downfall" of the ruble within several months and urged joint action by members of the Commonwealth of Independent States to ease the crisis. Other leading experts doubt that monetary reform by itself can revitalize the economy. "The main task now is not to manipulate finances," Oleg Yashin, first vice president of the Savings Bank of Russia, told Pravda. Rather, he declared, "it is to enable every...
...mechanisms. But the Soviet people are not prepared for that sort of shock. True, a free market will put more goods on the shelves of the gastronom, or grocery store, but with state subsidies removed, prices will rise. As Nikolai Petrakov, Gorbachev's top economic adviser, told the Rabochaya Tribuna (Worker's Tribune) last week, "People accept rationing coupons and standing in line -- especially during work time -- but not price increases." And the housewife can now vote for a parliamentary representative able to stand up in the Congress of People's Deputies and, if necessary, shake a fist at Gorbachev...
...said Czechoslovak Josef Cardinal Tomko, a member of the Pope's inner circle in Rome, was dictated by the "hope of receiving from the other side a response equally conciliatory, human and constructive." Lately there have been small but significant signs of change. Last year the Czechoslovak weekly newspaper Tribuna called John Paul "one of the most reactionary Popes of this century." But last May, another state- controlled paper, Katolicke Noviny, lauded John Paul as the "untiring hero of international detente." The seeming thaw in East bloc-Vatican relations was not in evidence last year when the Czechoslovak government refused...
While Veneto magistrates delved into it over the years, the scheme was chronicled in some 200 articles that appeared in a small daily, La Tribuna, in the city of Treviso. One disgusted oilman in Rome also claims that "everyone in the industry knew for years." But no national disclosures were made until Giorgio Pisano, a senator in the neofascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) recently reeled off a series of charges on the senate floor...
Approximately 50 members of Non-Intervention in Chile (NICH), marched into the IAPA meeting to protest the presence of publishers of Chilean newspapers El Mercurio and La Tribuna, which the group labelled pro-junta...