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Foreign News Commentary

RICHARD C. LONG WORTH MOSCOW UPI — • The battle has just begun.” With those words, a respected Western economic expert here described the quiet but desperate struggle that lies ahead to put the Kremlin’s radical, farreaching economic reforms in effect. Except for occasional salvos fired through the press, it will be a secret battle fought mostly in dusty offices and across pre-fab-covered conference tables beneath portraits of V. I. Lenin. The weapons will be paper and pen. persuasion and persistence. The stakes are prestige, power, influence — and the future of the Soviet economy. The antagonists, according to experts, will be Premier Alexei N. Kosygin and the reformminded “new men” of the Kremlin hierarchy, and the well - entrenched members of the Soviet bureaucracy. The struggle began three years ago with suggestions to loosen and liberalize Russia’s bureaucracy-clogged economy. Izvestia, the government newspaper, gave a rare peek behind the scenes recently when, discussing the reforms, it reported that “there are attempts now to go back to the old. to

This casual treatment indicated high-level opposition to the direct contact system, possibly from the state middlemen whom it would strip of power. “There is a lot of unfinished business, including the direct contact squabble,” one expert

summed up. "There will be much petty interference from medium and lower-level bureaucrats. They have no real power —but they can obstruct and delay the reforms for years.” More enlightenment and a clearer drawing of the battle lines are expected when Russia’s next five-year plan is published next March.

Visits Planned By LBJ, Pope VATICAN CITY UPI—President Johnson plans to visit the Vatican in the not-too-distant future and Pope Paul VI intends to follow up his transatlantic pilgrimage to New York with another trip to the United

| States, a high Vatican source ! said. However, no date was given either for the next papal visit or a trip to the Vatican by Johnson, who will undergo surgery for the removal of his gall bladder on Friday. The source said the 68 year old pontiff discussed the possibility of a visit by Johnson to the Vatican during their meet-

ing in New York on Monday and the U. S. leader said he would come here soon. Pope Paul’s visit to New York, where he also addressed the United Nations, said Mass at Yankee Stadium and visited the World's Fair, was a universal voyage dedicated to promoting peace in the world, the source said. However, his next visit will

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be mainly to honor American Catholics for their devoutneM and their dedication to the church, the source added.

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administer as before . . . this must not be permitted." The first stage ended at the late September meeting of the Communist Party’s Central Committee. There. Kosygin laid down guidelines for an economy based on profits for individual responsibility for businessmen freed of detailed state orders, and for a new Soviet price system. The implications for Soviet bureaucrats were obvious. If the reforms go through, men who have spent their lives telling industry what to do and how to do it will suddenly find their power trimmed. In some cases they may lose their jobs. The bureaucrats, for instance, used to dictate output, work force, average wages and total wages for each factory. Under the reforms, these four areas of pou'er will be cut back to just one — the wage fund. The fact that Kosygin delivered as strong a speech as he did proves he has won many of his preliminary battles, the experts said. But there were indications he also lost a few.

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For Instance, the Central Committee Plenum was postponed from July to September to permit settlement of many arguments beforehand, sources said. And Kosygin only mentioned in passing one widelypredicted reform — the elimination of the old state marketing system In favor of direct contacts between factories and stores.

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