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SOVIET UNION

MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet underground economy
has poked through the surface in Riga market, a weekend

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One hundred rubles ($160) could buy a jean skirt 4%
with the SFINKS brand on a triangular metal tab
displaying the ancient Egyptian monument. The average | | -
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priced at 250 rubles, $400 US at the official exchange

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Gorbachev said in January that 300,000 Soviets drive| | Nike cross Trniner arnt ore 79% Boor Bony pated 14° Les MERCHANTS 3 49°
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citizens more freedom to work for th or form oven ~— | Gund Stuffed Dog - Hair care for 1 year

co-operatives. WOOLCO 5 2988 TOYS & WHEELS 39° BOOTS 15°

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services are too expensive and those who work in them
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farmers’ markets scattered around Moscow. But on
Saturdays and Sundays it blossoms with booths of
several thousand merchants.

The merchants say they work for themselves or are
members of co-operatives formed under the new law. But
they are reluctant to discuss their affairs, aparently
either because they are operating illegally or because

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draws young people like a magnet and that “crimes are| | Turnec Remedy Sport Shoe Selection of Hard Cover Books Daily Lunch Special (1 per mon. for 1 year)
committed here every day, and in no small quantity.” | | PLAZA MERCHANTS 5 | THE FLOWER BASKET KOOT. SAVINGS CREDIT UNION
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western-made boots cost 150-200 rubles ($240-$320).
A few minutes later, another young man approached | | LEMOEL CHIROPRACTOR 4500 SuPER-vaLu 4900] Mariposa 509°
the same westerner and asked if he had a jacket, boots, or | | Posture Pillow Erect Wok 2899.00 Gili Certiticates

pants to sell. Told no, he followed behind and asked: “Do| | TRAIL CONTINUING EDUCATION 20° WILLIE WOOZLE 7200 MORE ITEMS
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Lyonya said a friend of his buys sweatshirts at the
official price of three rubles, puts an English-language

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them and sells them for 35 rubles.
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children’s sweatsuits, one with Walt Disney's Bambi

emblazoned on it, for 20 rubles (about $32).
Moskovsky Komsomolets said one morning’s police

records showed a young Russian was arrested after

selling an imported jean jacket for 120 rubles ($190).
Another was selling packs of Marlboro cigarettes for
eight rubles (about $12.80).

He said he sells in Moscow. occasionally but prefers
the Soviet Far East or Siberia. “It’s too crowded here,”

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