It does not represent the totality of the charges that may result from our continuing investigations of these accused, nor does it represent our final determination of the responsibility of others in relation to the same events.

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Moreover, Western private sector demands will create additional pressures on the system when they require, for example, a clear determination whether the individual republics, like Russia, will be willing to accept responsibility for a crushing level of Soviet hard currency indebtedness, indebtedness that they had no direct involvement in creating and from which they derived little, if any, benefit.

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