First of all, it reflects the fact that someschoolspracticedseparateeducation for boys and girls, whichwasintroducedin 1943 in Moscow, Leningradand some otherbig citiesoftheUSSR.
How does the Bush Administration plan to justify any direct or contingent U.S. taxpayer risk exposure to the USSR when Moscow is currently in a severe payments crisis to Western suppliers, has not embarked on serious economic reform and refuses to disclose fundamental economic and financial data?
Indeed, given the current dearth of creditworthy sovereign borrowers elsewhere in the world, due to the ravages of the international debt crisis, Western bankers and securities firms continue to offer Moscow more borrowing opportunities than the USSR needs.
"Clearly, the Bush Administration is nervous about the real prospect that the pressure mounting on it from Moscow and allied capitals to bail out the USSR will prove a serious domestic political liability, " said Frank J.