Marshalling an Effective Aid Package

Political pressure from all quarters has finally persuaded President Bush to join his G7 allies in supporting a multibillion assistant package to the former Soviet Union. In Moscow, first deputy prime minister Yegor Gaidar grasped the G7 package as something to be "compared in scope only to the second Marshall Plan." The allusion is hopeful if exaggerated. While the rhetoric is reminiscent, neither the circumstances in the east nor the commitment to the west yet justify such a comparison.

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