Ignoble Prize for Candor

By DAVID ELLIS/

GEORGI ARBATOV

The Soviet foreign policy expert wryly commented to journalists on the laurels bestowed upon Mikhail Gorbachev and in the process proved just how institutionalized glasnost really is: "I am sure he deserved the Peace Prize, ((but)) I wouldn't think he deserved the Nobel Prize for Economics."

With reporting by DANIEL S. LEVY