Priority To Industry In Bulgarian Plans
< .V Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) SOFIA, November 5. The Bulgarian Communist Party opened its eighth congress in fla§-bedecked Sofia today under the eye of experienced Soviet and Chinese theoreticians.
Mam topics for discussion are expected to be de-Stalin-isatiorr and the new 20-year development plan. Some observers believe the congress will weed out a number of ■■unreformed Stalinists” from the party’s 89-member committee.
This is because of internal resistance to the liberalisation efforts of the party leader. Mr Todor Zhivkov, who returned recently from a flying visit to Moscow. But no sensational changes were expected within the top leadership Much of Mr Zhivkov’s report to the congress today is expected to deal with a draft 20-year development plan aimed at raising industrial production three times above the 1960 level by 1970, and seven times by the end of 1980 Mr Mikhail Suslov, the Soviet Communist theoretician. arrived yesterday at the head of Russia’s delegation.
A Chinese delegation arrived aboard the same plane. They left by a different exit and were met separately
The Chinese are ied by Mr Wu Hsiu-chuan, who is considered to be well-versed in ideological affairs. In London. “The Times” said today that Bulgaria faced mounting economic problems and acute food shortages. The country was facing an economic crisis which had shaken the confidence of the Communi’t
The Government had been forced to increase food prices and in troduce measures which amounted to rationing of potatoes, onions, beans and rice.
Against this background the Communist Party would begin its eighth congress to review progress over the last four years.
“The Times’* correspondent in Belgrade said Bulgaria's new 20-year development plan gave absolute priority to development of heavy industry. But agricultural planning was modest and envisaged an output in 1980 only two and a half times higher than that of 1960
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29972, 6 November 1962, Page 17
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