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WORLD, Page 56World NotesSOVIET UNIONBringing Home The Borscht
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.
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?