A NEW ANTI-ALCOHOL CAMPAIGN?

Yegor Ligachev, the Politburo member manybelieve was behind the 1986 anti-alcohol campaign, wants a new crackdown onalcohol consumption, Pravda reported May 16. The former party chieftain saidRussians must “sober up” if the economy is to be turned around. Ligachev madethese remarks last weekend at a Saint Petersburg conference on “The Role ofPerestroika in Russia’s Fate.”

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