Word: exports
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another of South Yemen's leaders, President Haidar Abu Bakr al Attas, who ranks No. 3 in the leadership hierarchy, candidly admits his country's "mistakes in the past" of trying to export socialist revolution and says, "We are not exporters of our ideas. We are here for one purpose, to develop our country so that we can improve the lives of our people...
That is a plea the U.S. should take seriously, by easing restrictions on the export of industrial technology to the Soviets. Unfortunately, the biggest barrier to such shipments is not export controls but the lack of hard currency. The U.S. cannot finance the Soviet drive to conserve energy and control pollution, but America should offer as much technical assistance as possible. The Soviets seem to be sincerely determined to clean up their act, and the U.S. should help...
...last analysis, the waste crisis is almost always most effectively attacked close to the source. There should be an international ban on the export of environmentally dangerous waste, especially to countries without the proven technology to dispose of it safely. In the past two years, some 3 million tons of hazardous waste have been transported from the U.S. and Western Europe on ships like the Pelicano to countries in Africa and Eastern Europe. Observed Saad M. Baba, third secretary in the Nigerian mission to the U.N.: "International dumping is the equivalent of declaring war on the people of a country...
From New York, Gorbachev will fly to Havana. Soviet spokesmen at the U.N. and in Moscow stress that his main purpose there will be more remonstrative than comradely. Fidel Castro has been openly skeptical about the new line coming out of Moscow and unrepentant about the export of revolution to Latin America and Africa. Since the Soviet Union provides $5 billion in aid to Cuba annually, Gorbachev will tell him to get with the program of new thinking...
...organizations, to extend the repayment periods of the existing loans, so that Mexicans are not forced to postpone badly-needed services and internal investment to pay off the debt and to keep the U.S. dollar down. Foreign governments must also resist pressure for protectionist legislation which would cripple the export possibilities of Mexico and the other debtor nations in Latin America...