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...national resources in the post-Brezhnev era. The Soviet leadership under Andropov is expected to maintain Soviet military spending at its present high levels, estimated to be 12% to 14% of the G.N.P. What is left will have to be spread more thinly. Says Robert Legvold, an expert on East-West problems at the Council on Foreign Relations: "The Soviet Union simply does not have the resources to invest in all the necessary sectors. The leadership is going to have to make tough decisions on allocations of capital, raw materials and labor...
...Union in recent years." Britain's weekly Economist declared that though Andropov is "no woolly liberal," he is an "enlightened conservative." Soviet experts in the British Foreign Office have characterized the new party chief as an "urbane" and "liberal" figure who offers the best chance for an improvement in East-West relations...
...hurt American farmers? Over the past five months, the U.S. has banned the sale of American energy technology to European companies that are supplying equipment for the pipeline. But that policy has caused an uproar in Europe, and the U.S. lifted those sanctions on Saturday. A new understanding on East-West trade announced by the President (see WORLD) will resolve some of these Europe-U.S. frictions, but the basic disagreement on the usefulness of sanctions will remain...
...East-West tensions: The fact is that Communist ideology throughout the past decade has been and continues to be aggressive. On top of that it has been linked to the old Russian claim to being a world power. There are the immense armaments that have been built up in the East. Next, take the fact that treaties have not been honored. There is the Final Act [1975] of Helsinki [which enshrined detente], and contrary to that there is the invasion of Afghanistan and martial law in Poland. All of these facts arouse the fears and the worries of people living...
Grain sales helped push U.S. exports to the Soviet Union to $2.4 billion in 1981, up from $1.5 billion the year before. Although East-West relations have been bitterly strained, business has a way of getting done...