University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 14, 1990
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Trade negotiations progress
U.S. works with Soviet Union toward better agreement
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. and Soviet trade negotiators expressed satisfaction yesterday with the progress made in their first round of talks aimed at wiping away nearly a half-century of trade friction between the two superpowers.
Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Julius Katz said that he was confident that a new trade agreement could be negotiated in time for President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to sign the document at their next summit meeting in June.
"I don't have any doubt that we can get the job done." he said. "There was nothing that came up that presents an insuperable obstacle."
Chief Soviet negotiator Yuriy Chumakov also expressed optimism, although he said more progress could have been made if the United States had been able to present a draft treaty for review during the two days of talks. The Soviets did present a draft document for discussion.
"From our perspective, we think these negotiations have gone fairly well," he said. "At least each side got a feeling about what the oppo
site side expects from it."
The Bush administration hopes that normalizing trade with the Soviet Union will provide economic support to the sweeping political reforms Gorbachev has instituted.
U. S. officials predict that twoway trade between the countries could double or even triple during the next three years with a new agreement, although private economists doubt that assessment, given the numerous troubles planning the Soviet economy.
In the first 11 months of 1989, U.S. exports to the Soviet Union, primarily grain shipments, totaled $3.82 billion, while Soviet sales in the United States, primarily of petroleum and consumer items such as vodka and furs, totaled $658 million.
6038 n. 1040 The trade treaty would be used to grant the Soviet Union most-favored-nation status, qualifying it for the lowest tariffs available to any other country. Soviets export into the United States currently bear duties as much as 10 times higher than imports from other nations.
By one estimate, the price of Soviet vodka could drop by $1.25 a bottle with the lower tariffs.
The higher duties are a result of the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, which Congress passed in retaliation for the refusal of the Soviet government to allow Soviet Jews and other dissidents to leave the country.
As negotiators in Washington focused on a new Soviet trade treaty, other administration officials were preparing for meetings today and tomorrow in Paris, where the United States will seek to forge a coordinated strategy with its Western allies for easing curbs on high technology exports to Eastern Europe.
The discussions will be held under the auspices of the 17-nation Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls, known as Cocom. This group sets the rules for selling goods with possible military applications to communist nations.
Last month, the Bush administration said it supported increased sales of advanced computers, telecommunications equipment and machine tools to East European nations that have rejected their communist governments and have started liberalizing their economies.
Reagan testimony could be closed
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Ronald Reagan's lawyers asked a judge yesterday to bar reporters and the public from the courtroom when the former president gives video-taped testimony Friday in the Iran-contra case of his former national security adviser, John Poindexter.
Iran-contra prosecutors and the Justice Department joined Reagan's lawyers in saying that news organizations have no constitutional right to attend the pre-trial deposition.
"Even if there were a constitutional interest in the press' attendance at the deposition . . . that interest is outweighed by the significant risk of disclosure of confidential information," Reagan's lawyers said in a document filed in U.S. District Court.
Reagan's lawyers urged that the videotape and any transcripts of it be sealed until the videotape is played
back to the jury at Poindexter's trial.
Iran-contr prosecutors, however, said the court should consider the news organizations' alternate request for access to the edited videotape and censored transcripts of the deposition.
The prosecutors said the protection of sensitive national security information was a compelling governmental interest sufficient to justify precluding the media from attending the proceeding.
Twelve news organizations have asked U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene, who is presiding in the Poindexter case, for admission to Reagan's deposition.
If necessary, the news organizations said, Greene could order closing of the deposition during lines of questioning that may elicit sensitive information.
Reagan's lawyers said such an approach would lead to disruptive
restrictions on the sequence of questions or significant interruptions caused by repeated press entry and exit to the deposition.
Reagan's testimony is to be edited and played back at the trial of Poindexter, who last week was given permission by Greene to ask Reagan 154 questions plus follow-ups.
Iran-contra prosecutors will cross-examine Reagan at the same session.
examine relegation.
The former president agreed last Friday to submit to the questioning but reserved the option to invoke executive privilege on specific questions. The Justice Department will send representatives to the deposition so that the Bush administration may block responses that may impinge on national security.
Executive privilege is the doctrine that certain deliberations of a president and his advisers in fulfilling their constitutional duties may be kept secret.
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