1987. május (53-73. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2

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73/87 /E/ 30th May, 1987

Reform-Proposals of Economists and Journalists

Hungárián economists prepared a lengthy study in the second half of the last year under the title "Tum-about and reform", on behalf of the Council of Social Policy of the People's Patriotic Front, in which they proposed radical political and economic reforms. The 222 page matériái has been discussed on a conference arranged by the People's Patriotic .Front, bút the publication and further discussion of the study has been prohibited by the Party leadership. The economists now summarised the essence of the former study in a shortened 50 page report, which is being distributed in Hungary as an independent (samizdat) publication, although the police has already seized about hundred copies 0f it during a raid on the 26th of May.

This 50 page volume contains another 11-page report prepared by journalists and employees of the rádió and television. This report has similarly been made on behalf of the uouncil of Social Policy of the People’s Patriotic Front, comprising proposals of the mass-media workers fór reforms of the publicity and demanding the abolishment of the. monopoly of information. Neither this report has been officially published and it s authors have been summoned to higher Party organs.

The Financial Research Institute, where many of the contributors of the economic study work, has been disbanded in the beginning of May; nevertheless, after a few days of parleying its further working has been authorised.

The 24th May issue of the 'New lork Times' reports that the Hungárián Party Centre's draft fór economic reforms has been rejected by the experts of the Hungárián Ácademy of Sciences. The academicians assembled on the 18th of May in Leányfalu to disscuss the draft, bút all the 19 contributors shared the opinion that the document contains commonplaces only, without actual proposals fór dimi- nishing the serious indebtedness of the country and restoring its stagnating economy. The chairman of the Hungárián Academy of Sciences, Iván Berend, according to the information of the American correspondent, announced that the draft of the Party "is a public statement only, bút nőt a serious proposal".