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- WORLD, Page 56World NotesSOVIET UNIONBringing Home The Borscht
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- Convinced that members of the U.S. Congress are overpaid at
- $89,500 a year? Irate that their salaries may go up to $135,000?
- Then Mikhail Gorbachev may be your idea of the perfect public
- servant. For the first time, the Soviet leader's pay has been
- revealed: according to Vitali Korotich, editor of the weekly
- Ogonyok, Gorbachev receives 1,500 rubles a month, or $30,000 a
- year.
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- On the other hand, Gorbachev makes about seven times the
- average Soviet wage. (George Bush, at $200,000, makes ten times
- the average annual American income.) And don't forget the
- perks: a limousine, a Moscow apartment, a dacha, hand-delivered
- groceries. Korotich also disclosed that Gorbachev donated
- $600,000 in foreign royalties from his book Perestroika, to the
- Communist Party. Are you listening, Jim Wright?
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