European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes wednesday april 11,1990 soviet economist delivers grim warning by the Baltimore Sun Moscow a the soviet unions chief strategist for economic Reform warned monday that unless the country moves rapidly to a Market Economy it will not survive As a world Power. A we have to be sure of a Clear understanding in All layers of society that without such a transition the soviet Union does not have a future As a highly developed country a Deputy prime minister Leonid Balkin said. A there is no other path. Everybody should know  in a wide ranging meeting with the press Balkin a Radical economist who joined the government last year seemed intent on squeezing the last drops of ideology out of soviet economic policy. He did not mention Marx Lenin communism or the 1917 revolution. Socialism came up Only when a correspondent broached it. Otherwise the discussion focused on pure Westem style economics Money Supply banking system Stock companies inflation and currency convertibility. Aback in a appearance was the latest move in the leadership a gradual unveiling of what he acknowledged will be controversial measures to Speed Reform a angolan rebels offer cease fire seek peace talks Lisbon Portugal apr  rebels in Angola offered an immediate truce monday and conditional recognition of the marxist state in an attempt to restart talks to end the 15-year-old civil War. The unit a rebels proposed direct closed door peace talks to be held in Lisbon. It said Portugal the former colonial Power in the Southern african state can play a a Pivotal role among angolans of All political  on Friday angolan president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos also called for direct talks after meeting with three other african Heads of state in the tiny Island nation of Sao Tome e Principe. Unita or the National Union for the total Independence of Angola has been fighting the government since shortly after Angola gained Independence in 1975. A statement released in Lisbon and signed by Unita Leader Jonas Sav Imbi and other top ranking rebel officials announced major concessions to the government but promised even fiercer fighting unless a peaceful settlement is reached. Unita said it stands a ready to cease hostilities immediately and without  to adopt economic reforms Moscow apr soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said tuesday he would Convene a weekend meeting of top advisers to make difficult decisions on the Economy the Tass news Agency reported. Gorbachev said the meeting saturday would adopt the governments package of measures on economic Reform Tass reported. The news Agency quoted Gorbachev As telling delegates to a conference of Young communists that the meeting of his residential Council and the federation Council should make difficult but essential decisions on the Economy. The presidential Council is a new body formed to advise Gorbachev under the presidential form of government instituted last month. The federation Council is an advisory group focusing on issues involving Moscow and the soviet unions is republics. Gorbachev said the economic Steps initially planned for 1992 and 1993 should be taken this year and Early next year Tass reported without elaboration. Most significantly Price Reform. Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has concluded that the economic Reform program approved by the Congress of Peoples deputies in december will provide too Little too late to prevent the disintegration of the Economy. On his orders 60 economists and other experts have been meeting for a month to draft measures to Speed the junking of centrally planned economics and hasten the shift to the Market. But Gorbachev has released Little information about the change possibly for fear that extensive publicity will permit the numerous opponents of a Market Economy strategy to organize a Campaign against the measures. An unpublished Council of ministers decree on the Reform plan approved a month ago was titled a on the transition to a planned Market Economy a a name that some soviet and Western economists immediately denounced As a contradiction in terms and a recipe for confusion. Central planning and a Market Economy Are incompatible opposites they said. Quot the economic strategists have already responded to the criticism Balkin said he repeatedly used the term a regulated Market Economy a which might be applied to the . Economy a saying it reflects precisely what the soviet government intends. According to Western experts the chief obstacle to efficient functioning of the soviet Economy is Central bureaucratic control of nearly All prices. Because prices do not reflect Supply and demand factories produce too much of some goods and too Little of others. To create an efficient Economy the government must free prices. If they Are freed however prices for most items especially foodstuffs Are Likely to Rise sharply. So Balkin said the government is braced for Strong opposition to the plan. A we have to be prepared for fairly powerful resistance a he said. A but we can to give in to pressure. We must firmly pursue the chosen  forced removal in South Africa a Young Mother with her child on her Back stands amid her belongings tuesday As municipal workers in a town outside Cape town South Africa level her Wood and Iron shanty. More than 30 shanties were destroyed leaving More than 100 people homeless. Romania to get new reformed secret police Bucharest Romania apr interim president Ion Iliescu who was nominated As the National salvation front s candidate for presidential elections in May said a new secret police service will be established in Romania. Addressing reporters after a two Day conference where he assured romanians they had made a permanent break with the communist past Iliescu said the new internal Security operations would replace the dreaded Securi Tate secret police. The Securi Tate which was blamed for arresting and torturing thousands of people viewed As opponents of the communist regime was dismantled in the Wake of the december revolution that toppled dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Iliescu said the new look romanian internal Security service would be different from the old Securi Tate. A it will Deal in information and counter espionage and will be deprived of repressive functions a Iliescu said at the news conference. The new police service will no longer be allowed to carry out inquiries which will be the task of the prosecutors office and to hold people in prison Iliescu said. A this service will have a new Structure similar to those existing throughout the civilized Western world a Iliescu said without giving specifics. In february defense minister Victor a. Stanculescu announced plans to revamp internal Security operations a run for decades by the Securi Tate a into an organization resembling the . Fri. But Iliescu like Stanculescu did not elaborate on the process transforming the Securi Tate a whose repressive secret police methods had been unmatched in Europe since the stalinist 1950s a into a Force resembling the Fri a Branch of the department of Justice charged with investigating violations of Federal Law. Stanculescu said Securi Tate officers who did not commit atrocities would be Fiven jobs in the defense ministry a new Temal Security Agency which he described As similar in character to the Fri. Activities of the Federal Bureau of investigation a following up violations of espionage sabotage kidnapping Bank robbery civil rights violations and fraud against the government a Are strictly defined by Law. Iliescu in recent interviews said the Securi Tate which had been part of the Interior ministry was a a neutralized and that the former leading officials were either arrested or discharged. In a speech opening the fronts first National conference on saturday Iliescu rejected opposition allegations that the front operates like the old communist party saying it was a modern organization with democratic Aims. At the meeting Iliescu was nominated As the fronts candidate for presidential elections to be staged May 20 concurrent with the first free parliamentary elections since 1937. 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