PERIODICALS
ECONOMICS, LABOR & BUSINESS
To sustain imports, the Soviets have allowed a rapid rise in their for-
eign debt, estimated at $14 billion in 1976, up from $1.9 billion in 1970.
Total Soviet bloc debt now stands at $40 billion.
All told, the Eastern and Western economies have drifted together to a degree unimagined a decade ago (Soviet grain imports from the West and proposed Western purchases of Yakutsk natural gas are often cited), but two big "ifs" hang over the...