Meanwhile, Mr. Salinas, who took office on Dec. 1, 1988, has carried out an economic program that includes withdrawing subsidies and selling inefficient state-run enterprises.

It sold state-owned enterprises to private buyers.

Razaq Dawood, the minister of commerce, industries and production, said current political difficulties would not deter the government from selling state-owned enterprises.

Efforts to sell or revamp state-owned enterprises like airlines and telecommunications companies have met with protests and political sabotage.

Under pressure from anti-apartheid organizations, the South African Government has in recent months all but suspended two-year-old plans to sell state corporations and other public enterprises.

The panel on privatization, for example, is looking at the experiences governments have had in selling state-owned enterprises.

As part of the transition to a free market economy, Lithuania organized a privatization campaign to sell government-owned residential real estate and commercial enterprises.

He has pushed through a fractious Parliament a desperately needed program to sell inefficient public enterprises and modernize Haiti's economy.

Mexico's 'Garage Sale' Mexico plans to sell state-owned enterprises from airports to railroads amid concern that it will repeat past mistakes in privatization.

He had helped build and sell several earlier enterprises which were initially not a great deal different that that proposed by Page.