There should be no waiver of the Stevenson amendment which effectively caps U.S. subsidized credits to the Soviet Union for oil and gas exploration and development.

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The Center has long viewed taxpayer-subsidized credits to Moscow as an imprudent liability and strategic mistake prior to systemic economic reform and free and fair national elections in the USSR.

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In particular, some seem to believe that the absence of strict control over the money supply notably the hemorrhaging of subsidized credits to bankrupt state-owned industries (read the military-industrial complex) is accepted by the Russian government as the single greatest obstacle to true structural change and that corrective action is in the offing.

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