SOVIET COMPROMISE

Some key points of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s agreement with the leaders of nine Soviet republics.

POLITICAL ELEMENTS

* Top priority is adopting a new Union Treaty “among sovereign states.”

* A new constitution should be presented to Parliament within six months after the Union Treaty is signed.

* New elections for national “power bodies” should be held after the constitution is signed.

* Republics that sign the treaty should receive “most-favored-nation” trading advantages with each other.

* The national and republic leaders regard as “intolerable any attempts to attain political ends through incitement to civil disobedience, strikes or calls for the overthrow of the existing lawfully elected state power bodies.”

* Any “stirring up of interethnic conflicts . . . should be firmly curbed by law-enforcement agencies.”

ECONOMIC ELEMENTS

* The republics and national government will fulfill their contractual obligations under the economic agreement for 1991.

* The unpopular new 5% sales tax on “goods that are in everyday demand” will be repealed.

* Students will be compensated for price increases and unpopular new prices for rail and air tickets rolled back.

* A decision will be made within a month on whether to index wages to the cost of living.

* Miners and other workers should “end their economic and political strikes and try to make up for lost production as soon as possible.”