Articles by R G Gidadhubli

R G Gidadhubli The organisation of the member states of the Warsaw Treaty has, on the eve of UNCTAD-VII, published proposals for a New International Economic Order to cope with the problems facing the developing countries. The proposals reflect the evolving Soviet perception of an interdependent world' instead of a 'world clearly divided into two systems'.

New Impetus to Indo-Soviet Economic Ties Gorbachev's Delhi Visit R G Gidadhubli WHAT is the outcome of the visit of Mikhail Gorbachev, general secretary of Communist Party of Soviet Union (CPSU) with regard to Indo-Soviet economic cooperation and trade? What will be the economic gains for India? Will it make any qualitative difference to the economic relationship between the two countries? These and many related questions will be taken up by analysts to examine the likely impact and consequences of Gorbachev's visit to India's economic relations in the years to come.

January 18, 1986 GENEVA SUMMIT US Climb-Down on Bilateral Economic Relations R G Gidadhubli THOUGH the Reagan-Gorbachov summit in Geneva has apparently not produced positive results on substantive issues such as the arms race, the star wars programme, etc, one area in which there are prospects of improvement in relations between the two countries is that of bilateral trade. Reagan may have reason to be happy that he succeeded, among other things, in persuading Gorbachov to buy more grain from the US, since the Soviets had hardly contracted for grain imports from the US market since mid-1985. In fact, as per the report of the US Department of Agriculture on 4USSR Grain Situation and Outlook' for October 1985, the Soviet Union had imported only 8,000 tonnes of grain from the US during July-August 1985 in contrast to 1.5 million tonnes in the corresponding months in 1984. The apprehensions of US policy-makers that the Soviet Union might not buy much grain from the US were possibly confirmed by the fact that the mission of John Block, the US Secretary of Agriculture, to Moscow in September 1985 did not yield any positive response from the Soviet side.

strength, influence and funds for themselves. This is compounded by an increasing tendency among workers themselves to lean on political influence of parties and leaders rather than on their own organisational strength. This aspect, again, does not appear to be sufficiently emphasised in the book. The blame for the sorry state of industrial relations in the country cannot be laid solely, on the role of the state. There are instances, though not numerous, where neither compulsory adjudication nor interference by the political executive has been able to do much harm because the workers and employers themselves show the maturity to resolve their disputes themselves, sometimes even with some actual conflict taken in their stride in that process, rather than permit intervention of outside forces into their mutual relations.

Reform of School Education R G Gidadhubli ON April 12, 1984 the Supreme Soviet of the USSR under the Presidentship of K U Cher- nenko approved an important document concerning school education in the country after the final form of school reform was accepted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CC of CPSU) two days earlier. The approved "Guidelines for Reform of General and Vocational Schools" was published in pravda on April, 14. The leaders of the Party and the government attach great significance to the type of education that children who are just starting school will receive since they are supposed to inherit and carry forward the legacy and objectives of the Great October Socialist Revolution at the turn of this century and at the beginning of the 21st century. Although a decision was taken in April to bring about school reform, the initiative for bringing about changes in the Soviet school system was originally taken by the late Yuri Andropov in June 1983 under whose leadership of the party and the government a draft proposal for school reform containing 40 articles grouped into 8 sections was prepared and published in Pravda on January 4, 1984 for public discussion.