81. The former state farm director has responded to opposition with a wave of arrests and a media crackdown. 82. The opposition accuses Lukashenko, a former Soviet state farm director, of establishing a dictatorship. 83. The others left the state farm in Hubei province where they had been sent to work. 84. The reforms took land away from collectives and state farms and put it in the hands of local officials. 85. They include legalizing limited private enterprise, transforming state farms into cooperatives, legalizing trade in dollars and welcoming foreign investment in some areas. 86. They include Maslyukov, a Communist Party member and a staunch defender of the military-industrial complex, and Kulik, a defender of state farms. 87. Working land leased from state farms around Yaroslavl, Agronova produced four times as many potatoes per acre last year as the national average. 88. Yeltsin abruptly canceled campaign trips this week and backed out of a Kremlin gathering with state farm workers on Friday, retreating to his country residence. 89. Yegorov began his career as the head of a state farm in the Stavropol region of southern Russia, then moved up to head of the regional government. 90. Yeltsin had planned to meet with state farm workers Friday in the Kremlin. |
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