
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, April 25, 1993                   TAG: 9304230469
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: F-2   EDITION: METRO 
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HOW GOOD IS RUSSIA'S CREDIT?

PRESIDENT Clinton should have taken a loan application with him to the summit. Yeltsin could have filled out the credit application so that the United States taxpayers ("the loan committee") could ascertain the credit worthiness of the borrower. I believe the Russians still owe us a huge debt from World War II, so they first should pay off that with real goods and then we could loan them billions more in exchange for real assets.

Small businesses cannot get government funds without this process. Why should the Russians or any other country be able to? GENE NIEMCEWICZ VINTON

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