Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appear benign.* The flow of Jewish emigration, which the U.S. Congress has made a precondition of the granting of most-favored-nation trading status to the Soviets, is swelling to record levels. Some Congressmen believe that the tough trade policy forced the Kremlin to ease its emigration policy. That view, however, is disputed by Administration specialists. They argue that by Unking freer trade with freer emigration Congress actually caused Moscow to clamp down on exit visas for about two years to demonstrate that it would not bow to U.S. pressure. The lesson now is over...
...problem. By letting some dissidents leave, U.S. officials suggest, the Soviets can eliminate them as focal points for unrest. Similar reasoning may have helped persuade the Kremlin to permit freer emigration by Jews. Said Adam Ulam, a Russian expert at Harvard: "From the Soviet point of view, once you cannot shoot people on a large scale, they might as well be allowed to migrate...
...chief reason for the more relaxed policy, in the view of U.S. analysts, is American public opinion. Said a Carter Administration official: "The Kremlin seems to have decided that it wasn't getting anywhere in taking a tough attitude toward the U.S. They still believe that dissidents are traitors, insane or both. But Moscow apparently came to a greater awareness of the liabilities of confrontation on this issue...
...foreign investors to manage and dispose of their assets, the less attractive investment in that country becomes. To restrict unreasonably the freedom of investors to repatriate the profits of their existing operations constitutes expropriation and de facto nationalization of those operations. Multinational capital has never been known to view uncritically such actions, whether the offending government is headed by a Salvador Allende or a P.W. Botha...
...wanted to create a sense of levity. I was here during the '60s, and think that Bok had a very full view of the situation," Napier added...