MOSCOW. June 5: The Soviet government tried on Tuesday to mollify conservative critics in Parliament who arc angry that Moscow's overtures to the West appeared to reduce the country from global superpower to world-class beggar, reports Ructer.

First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Shcherbakov told Parliament the Kremlin was seeking economic integration, not naked handouts, from Western economic powers.

Shcherbakov, responding to deputies' formal demands for clarification of the government's policy, denied reports Moscow was seeking up to 50 billion dollars a year in aid, and said any requests were still being formulated.

He added that government policy would remain in line with an economic programme already approved by the conservative Supreme Soviet, or Parliament.