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scribes the Soviet economy as “smaller, more militarized and more seriously troubled than most Western experts h%e allowed themselves to imagine.” Mr. Eberstadt further concludes “that Western trade with and aid to the Soviet Union play a much greater role in bolstering the Soviet state than the United States and Europe seem to realize.”
Mr. Gorbachev’s main goal during this latest visit to America was to obtain Western financing for his sick regime, according to Mr. Everstadt. He cited the Gorbachev agenda as given in the Dec. 8 Wall Street Journal, “. . . access to U.S. stock and financial markets, including the right to issue Soviet bonds in the United States; a revision of current U.S. laws barring U.S. governmentguaranteed export credits to the Soviet Union; a revised tax treaty to
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