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DATE: SUNDAY, June 10, 1990                   TAG: 9006100097
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
DATELINE: MOSCOW                                LENGTH: Short

YELTSIN VOWS REFORM HIS OWN WAY

Boris Yeltsin, the new populist president of the Soviet Union's Russian Republic, pledged Saturday to pursue economic reforms that would not lower living standards.

In a nationally televised interview, Yeltsin said his government had a 500-day economic program aimed at improving the supply of food and consumer goods, stabilizing prices and laying the foundation for long-term development.

Yeltsin appealed for a grace period of two or three years to carry it out.

"The situation in the republic is complicated," he said. "There is a crisis . . . but we shall look for a way out. It is so tense now that any spark, any rash action anywhere or even a rash word, could create a real conflagration," he said.

by CNB