The World - News from Jan. 27, 1989

The United States is considering a proposal to sell its heavily bugged new embassy building in Moscow to a private American consortium and build a more secure facility at another site, the State Department said. Spokesman Charles Redman said Dwayne Andreas, co-chairman of the U.S.-Soviet Trade and Economic Council, had “made some ideas along this line known to us . . . and we will be taking them into consideration.” He said the United States has already discussed the idea informally with the Soviet Union. Another State Department official said the consortium included Archer Daniels Midland Co., Ford Motor Co., Eastman Kodak, Chevron, Johnson & Johnson, RJR-Nabisco and Mercator Co.