51.   IMF and Moscow officials have been discussing that new economic strategy for several months.

52.   IMF officials urged Ecuador to develop a new economic strategy and reach a comprehensive accord with creditors before receiving the IMF loan.

53.   International financial institutions are reluctant to resume loans until the government unveils its economic strategy.

54.   Last week, Yeltsin formally dismissed Chubais as finance minister but let him retain the much more influential post of first deputy prime minister in charge of economic strategy.

55.   Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi unveiled the plans after a meeting of a special economic strategy task force which drafted the recommendations.

56.   Recently, the party leader, Chatichai Choonhavan, a former prime minister, was given power to chair a weekly government economic strategy meeting.

57.   Still, the lower-rate policy is a note of clarity in a economic strategy that is muddied by speculation even before its official launch.

58.   The blueprint was prepared by Yuri Maslyukov, a Communist who is first deputy prime minister in charge of economic strategy.

59.   The document has been drafted by a group of economists led by Yuri Maslyukov, a Communist who is first deputy prime minister in charge of economic strategy.

60.   The government announced plans last week to cut taxes as part of its overall economic strategy.