MOSCOW Soviet Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov, spurning the demandsof progressives, today offered an economic reform plan that continuesa ban on private property and generally maintains central control ofthe economy.
The 2,250-member Congress of People's Deputies interruptedRyzhkov's nearly two-hour speech with applause only once. About halfof the deputies clapped when he declared that "the state is the ownerof the means of production."
Ryzhkov said he was offering a radical reform "for carrying theeconomy out of a crisis." Food and consumer goods are in painfullyshort supply, and authorities now wonder if they will have enoughfuel to heat Soviet apartments through …
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