Specifically, the West should establish unmistakably that the Kremlin's use of energy and other economic leverage -- like the use of force -- to stifle political and economic autonomy in Eastern Europe, the Baltics and elsewhere will entail real and lasting costs in terms of Soviet access to Western economic, financial and technological resources.

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"They want and deserve to make this a real profession, and for that they need to unite and get better financial terms, " Shapiro says.

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"The 'non-summit' seems designed to create arrangements that would prevent such repression from incurring real costs in terms of access to Western economic, financial and technology resources, " Gaffney said.

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