European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 03, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars stripes wednesday april 3,1991 soviet Price hikes Here is a look at some of the Price increases facing soviet. Consumers. The average salary is 270 rubles a month or about 1 1.50 rubles an hour. A food i in rubles. Old j prices it new i per pkg prices i beef 2.q0 j 7.00 i pork 1.90 j 5.30 Chicken 3.40 5.60 cheese 3.20 j 6.40 wheat flour 0.40 Quot Quot 1.40 Rice 0.88 2.20 i sugar 0.85 2.20 j Tea 9.60 j 18.00 eggs ton 130 = 2.60 milk liter. 0.28 0.50 i bread Rye a a a 0.12 j 0.48 White. 0.50 1.20 j 11 consumer goods flt shirt Many a suit 1,34 .407.00 i 4.70 245.00i Wool blend a girl s school uniform 12.00 62.o0i i baby Carriage 68,00 i a v. Quot a �?�i1. A 136.oo a a a j sofa 188.00 346.00 color to 755.00 f 1,218.ool Tho soviet Union has four Exchange rates the official rate of 1.75 dollars ,. Per Ruble the commercial Rato 58 cents per Ruble the tourist rate of 17 cents per Ruble the Black Market rate of 3-4 conts por Ruble. I a p Moscow apr soviet shoppers complained cursed even cried tuesday after the government increased prices on Many goods for the first time in 30 years but in the end they dug deeper into their pockets for More rubles. A we Are becoming beggars real beggars a lamented Natalya Antonova coming out of a bread store crowded with Early morning shoppers. A your salaries Are not going up. The Only thing that awaits us our children is Price increases ranging from 250 percent to 1,000 percent went into effect nationwide on about half the food con Sumer products sold in state run stores. Many stores seemed emptier than usual because shoppers had cleared the shelves in recent weeks shipments of goods with new prices had not arrived. That seemed to Surprise. Some shoppers who believed that officials might try to increase the selection of goods to soften the blow. There also had been rumours that goods were being stockpiled in recent weeks before the Price increases. Mikhail s. Gorbachev a government ordered the austerity measure As a Means to help move the soviet Union toward a Market Economy bring artificially Low state supported prices closer to product Ion costs. A this is just another step in a number of economic measures by the government in a Short while i Hope we will feel the results a said Gorbachev spokesman. Vitaly Ignatenko. It is difficult to give a meaningful translation into dollars because the soviet Union has four Exchange rates for the Ruble the official rate of $1.75, the commercial rate of 58 cents the tourist rate of 17 cents the Black Market rate of 3 cents to 4 cents. The higher prices had been planned As Early As 1987 but were delayed by Kremlin officials who feared an explosive reaction. A bid to introduce the higher prices last Slimmer touched off a wave of panic buying that emptied stores. _ there were no reports of unrest in the country tuesday because of the Price increases but there was plenty of grumbling a the communist party is made up of bandits thais my opinion its a bloody party of bandits a said a 45-year-old Man who would identify himself Only As Zhenya. Ignatenko said Gorbachev was concerned about the Public reaction to the new hardships. E expected the reaction to be serious to be a concern a he said. A we could hardly expect some jubilant demonstrations jazz bands r shopkeepers worked into the night monday to change Price tags in stores but they did no to appear to have restocked the shelves. At gastronomy no. 44, the Only thing on Sale was Candy. Next door a Dairy store sold Only butter expensive Sturgeon a the Price of which sent one woman away sighing. Across town at gastronomy no. 4 near Waganka Square every shelf was empty. The Only business being conducted was at a dim counter where people were returning empty bottles for recycling. Only about half the Normal throng of shoppers was gathered at the Little ones children a store where clerks said the average Price of toys clothing was raised two to three times. A we arc standing Here very calmly without any work to do a said clerk Irena Mcmena 19. A of course its bad that prices Are going up. People Are Yelling at us. And what did we do a it was no different in Leningrad where Tatiana Titova was shopping a i do not object to the Price increases but i wish there were goods on the she Ives said Titova 25,Gorbachev ordered that workers pensioners receive about 60 rubles a month in compensation to help them afford the new prices but Many people complained it Wasny to enough. A a in a already on a pension for 10 years i got my compensation but with prices so High it amounts to very Little Money not enough to buy food a said Nina Akimova 69, who broke into tears As she bemoaned the Price of bread. More common was the reaction of Ekaterina Arnadina a 60-year-old pensioner standing in line to buy toilet paper in the Western ukrainian City of Lvov. A the Market Economy is entirely new for us a she said. A your leaders say higher prices Are necessary to create the Market. If that a the Case so be dated by-74 Jerusalem apr Carbon-14 tests on a few of the dead sea scrolls show they were written from the second Century . To the third Century a.d., officials said monday. The testing performed in a Zurich Switzerland Laboratory to Settle a scholarly argument appeared to confirm most scholars belief that the works were those of a jewish sect the essences said Magen Broshi custodian of the Israel my scums shrine of the Book. Robert Eisenman. Director of religious studies at California state University Long Beach has argued that the scrolls might be the work of Early palestinian christians. He based his theory partly on wording in the documents had called for Carbon testing at More than one lab. Eight of the More than 800 scrolls were tested along with six other documents Broshi said. The first of the scrolls was found by a bedouin Shepherd in caves at Kharbat Qumran overlooking the dead sea in 1947. Others were removed from nearby caves Over the following 10 years. About 80 percent of the scrolls have been translated published. In recent years the Pace of publication has slowed amid a dispute among scholars Over the release of some of the scrolls. Emanuel Tov a member of the International committee responsible for editing the scrolls said at a. Conference in Madrid Spain last month that the group working on the scrolls had been expanded. The scrolls represent the earliest existing copies of books of the Bible found with the biblical copies were poems stories Legal texts research based on the scrolls has provided insight into the lives religious thoughts of the essence into the roots of rate of soviet jews to Israel climbs j e re Salem a some 13,000 soviet jews arrived in Israel in March almost double february a immigration rate officials said Mon a Day. Quot a a Al a a a a a a a. A the persian Gulf War had drastically reduced the Pace of the immigration with february s rate of 7,100 Only a lift a of december a figure. Gad Ben Ari spokesman for the jewish Agen _ cd a quasi governmental body that helps transport immigrants to Israel in their a sorption a said the number of soviet jewish immigrants is now expected to grow monthly. Some 230,000 soviet jews have immigrated to Israel since mid-1989, the government has not yet created housing or jobs to accommodate them. Simha Dinitz head of the Agency predicted acute problems for immigrant families entering their second year in Israel when government subsidies Are Cut. A a a a a family of three receives approximately $8,750 for the first year in Israel but the sum is greatly reduced in the second year when the. Immigrants Are expected to have found meets with Gorbachev Yeltsin Moscow apr former president Nixon winding up a two week visit to the soviet Union met in the. Kremlin on tuesday with president Mikhail s. Gorba Elev russian federation Leader Boris n. Yeltsin. Nixon on is seventh trip to the soviet Union said it was the first time he was Able to speak to opposition leaders As Well As officials in the government. A a the soviet Union used to be a one Man show i did no to Sec anyone but the leaders a few government officials. I did not have the Opportunity to meet opposition leaders a Nixon said As he talked with Yeltsin during a break in the russian Congress of Peoples deputies. _ _ Nixon met with opposition leaders in Lithuania As Well As in the soviet republics of Georgia the Ukraine. A a Yeltsin who is locked in a Power struggle with Gorbachev told Nixon that the soviet Union was in crisis. A perestroika is at an impasse a Yeltsin said. In the russian Republic Yeltsin said there Are conservatives who a would like to see a return to the past to a monopoly of the communist but russians know this will not happen Yeltsin said a people have gotten a taste of Freedom. They wont go Back a he said in welcoming Nixon. Nixon said that in conversations both with Gorba Elev Yeltsin economic reforms were discussed at length. A the main Point is that they both recognize there is a great the former . President said. A a a a a referring to the political rivalry Between the two so Fermer president Nixon left is welcomed at the Kremlin by soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Viet politicians Nixon said Yeltsin is a responsible Leader a i Hope he would play a role possibly even with president Ahe said people tended to underestimate Yeltsin. A some say he is an intellectual said. A they Are / he said he would prepare a report on his visit for president Bush. A
