The World - News from July 25, 1986

A Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman dismissed as a provocation an underground radical manifesto purportedly written by high-level Soviet officials, saying there was no proof of its source. The document calls for economic reforms and radical political changes that would have eliminated the Communist Party’s monopoly on political power. “There were a lot of problems with it, no reference to a source and falsehoods about such things at the amount of our debt,” Gennady I. Gerasimov told a routine briefing. The document was signed by an unknown Leningrad-based group calling itself the Movement for Social Renewal.