European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday july 1,1988 glgggmgmbammhmhmhmmiot""1" open door policy wins friends award. J a. A a a \ f Al so tvs to Toto soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev front right talks with delegates thursday during the third Day of the meeting. Party members dare to disagree split on soviet Reform at rare forum Moscow a delegates to a National comm author and conference Delegate from Leningrad. So. V a a a i. Al _. In. To a a ar�1 wt-s4s11ik i of o /rhmr%1tf� Tyia conist party conference were divided openly wednesday Over the Pace of economic change and the Media s new Independence under Mikhail s. Gorbachev. They also ordered an investigation into a report that some of the delegates in attendance have taken bribes. Gorbachev broke in at one Point to denounce at tempts by any one group of people to monopolize the nation s press As other delegates lashed out at publications including Ogo Nyok Magazine which has been one of the most daring advocates of the Krem Lin s Campaign for glasnost. The 5,000 delegates to the party s first National con Ference in 47 years watched a rare spectacle in this Long closed society speakers at an official gathering daring to disagree. Although closed to All but the official Media soviet to viewers and newspaper readers got a taste of the proceedings from published and broadcast reports on the second Day of the open ended forum. Gorbachev opened the conference in the Kremlin tuesday with a proposition to revamp the soviet Polit ical system by indirect election of a More powerful president convening of a full time legislature and a shifting of authority from local communist party bureaucracies to local government councils. He also pressed for a Quick return to family farming to Spur food production and end chronic shortages. Delegates themselves and published or broadcast reports wednesday indicated the conference s second Day was marked by contradictory assessments of the fruits of Gorbachev s drive for perestroika or social and economic restructuring. Far it s a real muddle. It s a Complete mess the press became a target with critics suggesting there has been too much openness. Gorbachev interrupted Mikhail Ulyanov to add his thoughts to those of the head of the russian federations theater workers Union who observed the soviet Media Are no longer Servile but a Force to be reckoned with. In the past Gorbachev said there was a monopoly on the mass Media by one group of people and we know what this has brought about. Now we see another group acting very gradually wants to use the press As a National Rostrum. We want the pluralism of views. Therefore it is necessary to create conditions for the expression of various  his comments Drew Stormy applause in the giant Hall and Yuri a. Sklyarov of the party s Central committee propaganda department said other delegates had criticized Ogo Nyok and its editor Delegate Vitaly Korotich As Well As other soviet journals exploring the frontiers of glasnost. F. V. Popov Pany chief in the siberian Altai Region called his fellow delegates attention to the latest Issue of Ogo Nyok which accused some uzbek delegates of involvement in corruption. Popov demanded an investigation into the accusations. Gorbachev directed that an inquiry begin. Vladimir Karpov head of the writers Union complained that some writers Are depicting soviet history totally in Black an apparent reference to the recent barrage of exposes criticizing the late dictator Josef Stalin and other former soviet leaders. Karpoy s Deputy Yuri Bondarev charged that Nihi Listic criticism was becoming a commanding Force in the  can t really make a resume yet about what a for the immorality of the press cannot teach moral real and what s not said Daniel Granin a soviet to he said