Monday, 5 March 2012

U.S. lacks food plan to stall Soviet crisis

The Bush administration knows the people of the Soviet Uniondesperately need food on their tables, but no action plan is evenclose to ready.

What is needed is a reincarnation of Herbert Hoover to organizeand distribute massive food shipments to Russia as he did to Europein the wake of World War I. Instead, Harvard economists and theircounterparts in Moscow persist in talking about a grand bargain toinfuse the Soviet economy with American dollars that cannot be foundin return for Russian reforms that are but dreamy concepts.

That poses danger of foodless, homeless and jobless Russiansturning against Boris Yeltsin and their new democratic leaders.

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