Word: bohdan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...restrictions. Not only does Moscow lack the hard currency for large-scale purchases of Western equipment, but it also is pumping big amounts ($10 billion during 1970-75) into the development of its own computer industry, which has an estimated 80 plants employing 300,000 people. One Western expert, Bohdan Szuprowicz, a Polish-born authority on Soviet computers who advises major U.S. companies, sees signs that Moscow has been assembling only a sample of the most advanced Western computers it is permitted to buy as patterns for its own models. Says he: "It appears as if someone behind the scenes...
...Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, Ukranian-born director of Geneva's respected Center of Industrial Studies and a convinced European, argues that the flow toward unification is "irreversible." The Common Market may turn out not to be the main instrument of unity, he concedes. Other concerns, particularly the environment, will have a role in forcing the Europeans to make common cause. Eventually, Hawrylyshyn predicts, Western Europe might evolve into "a loose federation along, let's say, the Swiss pattern." NATO will fade; Eastern Europe and the West "will draw closer together, but remain on different wave lengths...