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Considering how many problems Moscow and Beijing share in bringing their reform programs to fruition, it seems appropriate that the two countries announced last week that Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen would visit Moscow later this year. If Qian talks with Gorbachev, it will be the first high-level official meeting between the two countries since 1969. The move signals Beijing's approval of recent Soviet foreign policy moves, notably a reduction in Moscow-supported Vietnamese troops in Kampuchea. It also raised the possibility of a Sino-Soviet summit meeting between Gorbachev and Deng in Beijing next year. If that...
...Foreign debt is placing dangerous pressures on fragile democracies. Especially troublesome to many businessmen is the strong showing made by the leftist opposition parties in Mexico's presidential election last July. "Our foreign debt has to be faced firmly," says Vicente Bortoni Gonzalez de Cosio, president of the Confederation of Industrial Chambers of Mexico, the country's largest group of private industrialists. "If not, it will force the country into leftist policies...
...country where "anchormen" have had merely to pick up a TASS wire and read it, few were prepared for the challenge of improvising on live television. The View crew, for example, was drafted from the World Service of Radio Moscow, where commentators had more freedom in preparing shows for foreign listeners. Molchanov, who began his career as a print journalist, recalls that "at the beginning, I had to take a gulp and realize that everything was possible when I went on live...
...spoke, one company executive asked another if Dukakis was aware of the plant's foreign ownership. Aides rushed to tell reporters that Dukakis was not criticizing Moog or its owners but was opposed to a growing trend of foreign investment in the United States...
...should also pledge to work toward forgiveness of Latin American foreign debt, so that those countries can afford to purchase American commodities. In the vice presidential debate, Dan Quayle insisted that debt forgiveness would be "wrong," "counterproductive" and unfair to American farmers. Quite to the contrary, removing this burden of debt would open up one of the fastest growing food markets in the world to American products. Nothing could please farmers more...