Word: kopecks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another caveat that could be too easily forgotten: the Soviets have proved to be impressively shrewd traders, eager and able to squeeze the last kopeck out of any transaction with capitalists. That kind of canny negotiating should give pause to the hundreds of U.S. executives who are rushing to do business with Moscow, especially those who want to exploit Siberian natural gas. In that deal, unlike the grain sales, the Soviets will be the sellers in a sellers' market...
...Actually the Russians allow the novelist to get a trickle of money from Switzerland (taxed at 40%), but he has to live very modestly. As for the Soviets turning over money from other writers, Solzhenitsyn said, "I'm convinced they won't give me a single kopeck...
LEND-LEASE DEBTS. The Soviets have yet to pay back the first kopeck on the U.S.'s $10.8 billion lend-lease aid provided during World War II. The real issue centers around payment for "civilian" goods, which accounted for one-quarter of the total. The Russians must at least partly clear up this default before Nixon can offer them Government-backed U.S. Export-Import Bank loans. The lend-lease talks were broken off in 1960 but, at Soviet request, talks have just been resumed in Washington. The U.S. has offered to settle for $800 million, but it wants hard...