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- <text id=89TT2898>
- <title>
- Nov. 06, 1989: Some Options For The US
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 06, 1989 The Big Break
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 47
- SOME OPTIONS FOR THE U.S.
- </hdr><body>
- <p>TOWARD THE SOVIET UNION
- </p>
- <p> -- Propose deep mutual cuts in military forces and
- expenditures going well beyond those under consideration in
- START and conventional-arms talks.
- </p>
- <p> -- Offer most-favored-nation status, allowing the U.S.S.R.
- the same trading arrangements provided to most industrial
- nations, including Hungary.
- </p>
- <p> -- Reopen access to Export-Import Bank credits on terms
- available to other countries.
- </p>
- <p> -- Waive the Johnson Debt Default Act, which prohibits
- private loans to Moscow.
- </p>
- <p> -- Follow the West German example of encouraging joint
- ventures by establishing a fund that would insure companies
- against Soviet default or expropriation.
- </p>
- <p> -- Support Soviet efforts to make the institutional changes
- necessary to join such international organizations as the World
- Bank, the International Monetary Fund and GATT.
- </p>
- <p>TOWARD EASTERN EUROPE
- </p>
- <p> -- Begin talks to determine Moscow's legitimate security
- concerns, which should be respected as Warsaw Pact nations
- exercise greater political independence.
- </p>
- <p> -- Offer incentives for American businesses and
- universities to provide training, internships, exchanges and
- technical advice to private-sector managers and workers.
- </p>
- <p> -- Relax technology-transfer regulations to allow sales of
- such items as personal computers and communications equipment
- that could spur autonomy.
- </p>
- <p> -- Grant Poland most-favored-nation status, as well as
- encourage trade policies that would provide hard currency from
- increased exports rather than through excessive foreign
- borrowing.
- </p>
- <p> -- Include Poland in the Brady Plan, which provides for the
- long-term restructuring of foreign loans.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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