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Administration Supports Perestroika In Words Only
Posting Date: 09/18/89 Source: UNITEX Network, Hoboken, NJ, USA
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John McWethy Washington, DC
ABC World News Tonight
Thursday September 14, 1989
On July 17, BUSH said that he wants to see perestroika succeed,
charting a course that brings the Soviet Union into the
community of nations. The Administration's strategy is to
support perestroika, but do almost nothing of substance to help
Gorbachev. Gorbachev most needs access to Western credit,
membership in international monetary and trade organizations, and
removal of trade barriers that limit high technology goods like
computers and electronics. In every case, the US is refusing to
help until further reforms are implemented. ED HEWETT, The
Brookings Institute, says we want to sit back and wait and see,
and possibly, in 10 years, we're going to look back and see
we've waited too long. It is the Administration's rationale that
Gorbachev will succeed or fail on his own, and help from the US
won't make any difference. Officials admit there is also a
lingering fear of the Soviet Union, a fear that it still could
revert to its old ways.
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