WORLD : Communists Oppose Changes
Defiant Communist officials said today they oppose widespread private property and indicated the party will resist calls to give up its own vast holdings and share power in a coalition government.
The officials, briefing reporters on a two-day Central Committee plenum that ended Tuesday, also rejected the elimination of party cells in the work place and said the Soviet Union will continue to celebrate Revolution Day as a national holiday.
Vladimir A. Ivashko, the party’s No. 2 leader after Mikhail S. Gorbachev, said private property “will have to be restricted for quite a while” and “it is a process of privatization, not a one-time act or decree.” And Politburo member Alexander Dzasokhov quoted party economists as saying just 7% of all property should be transferred to private ownership in the next 10 to 12 years.
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