The World - News from Dec. 28, 1988

Legislators in Soviet Uzbekistan have rejected a budget plan from the republic’s leadership and written their own, the official news agency Tass said, calling the action unprecedented. The opposition shown by a majority of the Uzbek lawmakers came less than two months after 31 of 1,500 deputies to the national Supreme Soviet, or Parliament, made history by casting the first “no” votes in that body in more than 60 years. Tass gave neither the date nor the breakdown of the vote in the Central Asia region. It said the legislators rejected the 1989 budget because it underestimated production capacity of government-owned industry.