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Th* Daily Banner, Graaneastla, Indiana Tuesday, August 3r, 1965

Foreign News Commentary

By K. C. THALER LONDON UPI — The Soviet economy, which is in the throes of a new grave agricultural crisis, is suffering also from serious power shortages which threaten Moscow’s ambitious Industrial plans.

Reports from Moscow reveal , shortcomings in Russia's pow-er-generation program. One of the country’s electricity chiefs has called for economies in the use of both coal and electricity throughout the European industrials parts of

! the Soviet Union.

Planning appears to have I gone wrong on more than one j score, and fratic soul-search-ing among the technocrats in Russia and in East European satellites for modifications or alternatives has shattered the : myth that Communist planning has given the Soviet Union and its allies immunity from eco-

nomic problems.

years past that Russia was well on her way to catch up and would soon overtake the American economy and its

achievements.

There have been amazing admissions of failure from among leading communists recently, both in Russia and in some East European countries.

The profit motive, which had always been rejected by Corn-

Gone also is the battle cry of j munist planners as the chief

deadly sin of the Western world, has been creeping discreetly through the backdoor into the Communist countries. Slowly, the idea of stimulating economic progress through the medium of “incen- | lives” is being accepted among the means to remedy the faults and shortcomings which are plaguing Communist economies l of late on an eve'- increasing

scale.

Promptsd by n«w agricultural troubles, the suggestion has been made in Moscow that the vast state farms should be broken up into smaller unit*. The fact that such a “reactionary” idea has been raised reflects the creeping doubts about the efficiency of traditional Communist economic egyNow It has emerged that the fuel and power sector of the

[Soviet economy has failed to 1 reach its target for the sevenI year plan which ends this year, j Already experts have begun i to sound the alarm that the So- ; viet economy is out of balance 1 and that it must be rectified as 1 soon as possible. This, they concede, is not going to be 1 easy.

body of a Czech teen-ager who apparently drowned while trying to swim to political asylum in Italy from neighboring Yugoslavia was recovered Sunday.

Body Recovered TRIESTE, Italy UPI — The

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