INTERNATIONAL

U.N. Says East Bloc Marshall Plan Needed: United Nations economists forecast growing social unrest next year in the Soviet Union and the former East Bloc, with depression and unemployment pressuring governments to abandon economic reform. The U.N.’s Economic Commission for Europe argued that a Marshall Plan type of coordinated Western assistance could put the region on the road to recovery and political stability. The economists estimated the drop in industrial production in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia at 19.5% for 1991 and at 9% and accelerating for the Soviet Union.