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...would be almost useless, since the primary cause of the Soviet Union's meat and vegetable shortage is its primitive storage and distribution system. More than half of all fruits and vegetables end up unfit for human consumption, and the same thing would inevitably happen to American shipments. Mikhail Gorbachev's path to salvation must lead away from centralized socialist planning and toward a market economy. Any future American assistance will probably be aimed at pushing him down that road...
...addressing a NATO meeting as guest of honor? Until quite recently, the idea would have seemed as preposterous as stickup artist Willie Sutton delivering the keynote speech to the American Bankers Association. But NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner will in fact fly to Moscow this weekend to give Mikhail Gorbachev a personal briefing on the results of last week's Western alliance summit in London. With him Worner will carry the diplomatic equivalent of an engraved invitation for Gorbachev to attend and speak at a future meeting of the NATO Council in Brussels, perhaps about a year from...
...NATO summiteers figured that one way to convince the Soviets was to do everything possible to help Gorbachev maintain his power against the critics who were blistering him at a Soviet Communist Party Congress. Thus the invitation to address a future NATO meeting specifically named Gorbachev and could not be used by any successor. Explained British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "Without President Gorbachev, all this ((improvement in East-West relations)) would not have happened." In Moscow, Gorbachev asserted, "I am always ready...
Bush, at a press conference after the meeting, proffered some one-old-pro- to-another advice on how Gorbachev could use the NATO communique to counter his critics inside the Kremlin. Bush's counsel: "I think ((Gorbachev)) will say, 'Look, NATO has indeed changed in response to the changes that have taken place in Eastern Europe' . . . I would think he could say, 'We've been right to reach out as we have tried to do to the United States and . . . to improve relations with countries in Western Europe. They're changing, they have now changed their doctrine because of steps...
...most contentious issue of all was, and remains, whether to extend economic aid to Gorbachev's government. The Soviet President for the first time explicitly asked for such assistance in letters to Bush and Thatcher before the NATO meeting. But the subject evidently was considered too hot to handle: it was not on the summit agenda and went unmentioned in the communique, despite much discussion...