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...they may prove to be easy pickings for predatory Westerners, or Wessis in G.D.R. parlance. Certainly, the Wessis are coming. Hotels are packed with Western businessmen eager to cut deals, whether the object of desire is a state-owned company, retail floor space, or a summer home on the Baltic...
...most unstable economy in the Eastern bloc, the Soviet Union's, is the largest and most important to its neighbors. A Soviet economic collapse would devastate Eastern Europe. Assuming that the U.S.S.R. adopts constructive policies toward the Baltic republics and German unification, the summit nations could provide assistance that would also hasten demilitarization. The West could help the Soviets build housing to expedite the return and demobilization of soldiers in Eastern Europe and provide training for non- defense factory managers...
RELIGION: The Russians pick a Baltic Patriarch...
Russia, which produces 90% of the country's oil and 70% of its gas, would sell to domestic customers at world prices, which are about five times higher than those now charged to other republics. Yeltsin says signing agreements with the Baltic states would be a top priority, hinting that he might help Lithuania bypass the economic blockade that Gorbachev has enforced to halt its drive for independence. These ideas are radical by any Soviet definition and put Yeltsin directly on a collision course with Gorbachev...
...difficult time." The next day at a press conference, Yeltsin elaborated on the details of his program of sovereignty and economic reform, thus ensuring further clashes with Gorbachev. He increased the tension another notch by meeting with Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis and promising to "cooperate fully with the Baltic republics...