Bush May Ease Ban on High-Tech Exports:...

Bush May Ease Ban on High-Tech Exports: The Bush Administration is actively reviewing proposals to relax the ban on sale of high-technology exports to Warsaw Pact countries, some of whom may help keep them out of the hands of their Communist neighbors, Commerce Secretary Robert A. Mosbacher said. Mosbacher said the review of current controls on high-technology products, which should result in proposals for change by April, is a reflection of the sweeping changes occuring in the Communist bloc. “Everybody is discussing what we should be doing about Eastern Europe, whether it is politically, economically or technologically,” he said. Mosbacher said that Hungary and Poland could be two of the main beneficiaries of such a change.