Japan's wariness over this precipitous GATT concession, like its earlier opposition to Soviet membership in the ill-conceived European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, has reflected to date the most visionary Western policy approach to cosmetic Soviet economic half-steps.

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The well-established pattern of such development suggests that the natural gas discoveries to date represent only a fraction of the total recoverable resource.

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Further conditions linked to the development will be considered at a later date.

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