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This is a Central Intelligence Agency JPRS Report (JPRS-UPA-90-053) dated 1 May 1990. It contains a translation of an article by Lev Tsvetkov, chief specialist in the USSR Council of Ministers Information Department, from the Moscow journal ZHURNALIST. Tsvetkov criticizes one-sided Soviet press coverage of price increases and trade union protests. He urges journalists to cover the move to market relations within the context of the government's economic recovery program. It mentions a UFO only in passing.
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## Document 6 of 8 government itself established a 'moratorium' on this decision until 1 April.' And in order not to leave any doubts that the capitulation was complete, it reports about the apologies of the Council of Ministers, and about 'those miscalculations which were committed in drawing up and adopting the decision.' In short, it was a fiasco. Certain other newspapers gave their estimates in the very same key. 22. I truly do not know what there is to celebrate here. Just the fact that they managed to avoid a strike? But if the press continues to provide such one-sided analyses, there can be no doubt: somewhere down the line a strike will occur. 23. There were, however, other articles as well, the authors of which delved far more deeply into the essence of what took place. For example, as I. Ognev wrote in "'Opazdyvayut novyye tekhnologii'" [The New Technology is Late] (IZVESTIYA, 1 February), "'Is it necessary to raise prices on energy sources? Alas, we are forced to do so, even immoderately. But at the same time I can recall that about seven years ago scientists at the Power Engineering Scientific Research Institute imeni G. Krzhizhanovskiy were telling me about installations of the fountain type, in which a mixture of half coal and rock burns marvelously. Others cited principally new technologies as well... But then--where are they?' It is not hard for the reader to come to the conclusion: If we continue to merely proclaim market management methods, and not take advantage of them, we shall continually be asking fruitless questions, and all the while engendering no-less-futile "'measures'" on technical retooling and economizing on resources. 24. V. Mamontov, writing in SOVETSKAYA ROSSIYA (11 February, "'Urok Soglasiya'' [The Lesson of Agreement]), clearly sees the danger of tendentious approaches, where the only way out of financial difficulties is compensation from the state budget: 25. ' `Send compensation!'--cry the business executives today...and immerse themselves in losses (from increasing prices--L.Ts.) from paying fines for delivery shortfalls and losses from their own mismanagement. Many 'burned out' people, as it turns out from detailed examination...have rejected orders from the state and have not concluded agreements. Alas, one must admit, that some people have decided on the Q.T. to negotiate a quiet life for themselves.' 26. V. Golovachev, writing in TRUD (13 February, "'Trudnyy put k soglasiyu "' [The Difficult Path to Agreement]], provided what is in my view a particularly weighty article, which also put all the accents in the right place. He, it goes without saying, noted that the government organs--the union-level Minfin, Gosplan and Goskomtsen [State Committee on Prices]--have been acting improperly, and did not
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