European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday March 2b, 1987 on upswing study says 86 figures Are Best in past decade Washington a entrenched bureaucrats Are opposing soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev s Campaign to re form the soviet Economy which per formed better in i486 than in the pre ceding decade 9 . Intelligence analysis says last year Gorbachev s first full year in office was a very Good year for the Economy in the soviet Union but a number of problem remain said the re port made Public on thursday. Despite the problems the soviet Gros National product grew by More than 4 percent the highest rate in a decade during 1986. The report said. The Gross National product measures All Good an services produced by an Economy by comparison the soviet Gnu had grown an average of about 2 percent annually for the. Previous decade. Only great Britain among All industrialized nations had a lower average growth Rale during the 10-year period. The analysis was compiled by the Cia and the defense intelligence Agency and was sent last week to congress1 join economic committee. A declassified version was released thursday the 48-Page document is unusual in the amount or detail made Public by . Intelligence analysis about the soviets. Gorbachev took Power in March 198$ and pledged to overhaul an Economy that was aging moribund and mostly de voted Over the past two decades to producing huge amounts of military weapons the report said. But even when he assumed  May not have fully grasped the scope of the country s economic problems and the magnitude of the Effort needed to attack them,1 the two agencies said. In fact despite his frenetic efforts Over the past two years we still do not Sec a viable integrated plan Tor modernization rather we see Many individual programs being put Forth each dealing Wiki one facet of the Economy the re port concluded. In the past year it said the first significant resistance to specific policies Al though not Overall goals surfaced in both the massive government and part bureaucracy particularly among Many Enterprise manager who complained that they were being asked to carry out conflicting goals such As to raise qual Ity standards and output targets Simuta  Many of Gorbachev s efforts to Cut alcoholism among workers and reduce corruption arc not new,1 it said but the intensity Gorbachev has brought to his efforts and his apparent commitment to finding Long term solutions Are attrib utes that his immediate  that commitment will be needed to oppose the bureaucratic toot dragging and outright opposition to some of Gorbachev s plans the analysts said. But despite the opposition shown twosome of his policies Gorbachev is Likely to Benefit politically from Bis modernization program Over the next Yean the report said. That s because As Long As the econ omy shows some improvement Over the record pasted in the recent past which seems probable Gorbachev will be in a position to declare his program a Suc Cess. " beside reforming altitudes Gorba Chev also tacos an Economy that lags far behind those of Western societies in ill technological capabilities the United states has an advantage of seven to 12years in Fields such As computers and microprocessors and while that margin May Likely be Cut there n mule Chance the . Lead will be lost the report Laid. The soviets Are hampered by a relatively antiquated Industrial base the paper said. One example cited is that the soviets normally use heavy Industrial equipment for 20 years or More while the United states replaces similar equip ment after 12 years and Italy and France use it for Only a decade. This year Gorbachev s plan involves modernizing the Industrial base improving management and motivating worker Effort with a growth target of 4 percent Gorbachev is apparently counting on payoffs from past investments and continued returns from his human factors Campaign particularly his efforts to increase labor productivity through in creased material incentives to meet ambitious 1987 targets the report said Royal visit King fahd of saudi Arabia and Britain s Queene Limbech ii pose Tor photographers at Bate in London prior la 1 banquet in the Queen i Honor. King fahd was making an official slate visit to Britain British centrists out poll labor London a Britain s centrist social demo cratic Liberal Alliance moved ahead of the labor party for the first time in three years in an opinion pol published Friday plunging prospects for an Early Gen eral election into deeper doubt. The Gallup poll for the daily Telegraph showed the Alliance with 31.5 percent two Points ahead of labor and six Points behind the governing conservatives who polled 37.5. It came a Day after a Mai plan Agency poll in the today newspaper tied the Alliance and labor at 31,with the tones holding 36. The polls have a statistical margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent. The Gallup poll of 966 voters was the first to put the Alliance ahead of labor since late 1983, and political analysts generally thought it would make prime min ister Margaret Thatcher More hesitant about calling an election in  have predicted a june election believing Thatcher will want to capitalize on an improving eco nomic Outlook last week s tax culling budget and the International stature she will achieve from Ner visit Toile soviet Union starting saturday. Thatcher s main fear is that the Alliance will win enough seals to Force her to take it into a coalition and water Down her staunchly capitalist doctrines and sup port for nuclear deterrence. The findings also triggered fresh speculation about whether the Alliance a 6-year-old Union of the liberals and labor and tory defectors who formed the social democratic party was displacing labor As the main opposition. Nakasone to visit . In april Tokyo Cap prime minister Yasuhiro Naka Sone will travel to the United Stales on april 29 to try 10 ease bilateral Trade tension a foreign ministry offi Cial said Friday. Word of the trip came at the same Lime the finance ministry announced Japan posted a current account surplus of $7.38 billion in february As the Merchan Dise Trade surplus widened to 18.14 billion on the strength of a Rise in exports. The april 29-May 5 Washington visit was set Tak ing into consideration the severe atmosphere Loward Japan in the . Congress. Which is Likely if left As it is to impair the base of Good Japan-, relations said the official speaking on condition of anonymity. It will be Nakasonc s sixth visit to the United Stales since he became prime minister in november 1982 but his first official visit at the invitation of Reagan the official said. Nakasone s Concrete itinerary including the Dale of a meeting with Reagan was said to be still undecided. Reagan s economic policy Council reached a consensus opinion thursday on Trade sanctions against japanese Chip makers Over alleged japanese failure to live up to an agreement reached last year. Both houses have approved a non binding Resolution demanding that the Reagan administration Reta Liate against Japan s failure to Honor its pledge to lower Trade barriers to . Computer chips and Slop Selling japanese made semiconductors at unfairly Low Market prices. Nakasone who will be accompanied by foreign minister Todashi Kur Anari also Wilt Exchange views on the upcoming seven Nanon Summit meeting stale for june 6-10 in Venice i Taly the official said. Soviets permit printing of underground classic Moscow not the soviet literary is. Stablish men which Long ago restored Anna Akhmatova to its pantheon of 20th-Century russian poets has just permitted publication of her poem requiem for Yean the underground Anthem of those who suffered under Ose Stalin. The poem composed Over a period from 1933 to 1940, appears in full in the March Issue of Oktyabr a literary journal. The Issue has not yet appeared on most Newsstands Small sections of the poem had been published before first Iri the 1940s and again in 1965 but without reference to the Overall work or to the per Sonal tragedies from which it was forged. For Man russians requiem crystallized the brutal pain of loss and betrayal of the Stalin Era. Former Abbot convicted of misappropriating funds Graz Austria a the former High us ing Abbot of the rein monastery was convicted thursday of misappropriating Church funds an sentenced to is months in jail. There were reports More than a year ago that Paulus Rappold was living in a manner much too extravagant for a Leader of roman Catholic monks. The cistercian order forced him to retire Jan 17, 1986, after judicial authorities began investigating financial irregularities at the Mon Astery 10 mites Northwest of Gray. Rappold was found guilty of buying real estate Worth 2.1 million schillings about 1160,000, in his own name with Money taken from monastery funds. . Company makes gift of coastline to Britain London a an american company bought a stretch of England s finest Granite coast line and presented it to the nation to celebrate a Century of profitable business in Britain the National Trust said. Cape Cornwall a 2so-acre area with 230-foot High Cliffs North of land s end at the Southwest tip of England was bought for the list for an Undis closed sum by Pittsburgh based h j. Heinz co. It s a magnificent gift As the Cape is loved by local people and visitors said Jeremy Paul a regional official of the Trust. The National Trust is an Independent body that owns and protects historic buildings and their Art collections gardens and landscape