PARIS : High-Tech, Comrades?
The United States and 16 other Western countries that form the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) gather Wednesday to consider easing limits on high-tech exports to the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies.
Formed 41 years ago to protect against a drain of militarily sensitive technology to the East Bloc, COCOM is reacting to the new political climate resulting from perestroika in Moscow and democratic revolutions throughout Eastern Europe.
Among specific actions expected: approval for the sale of six Control Data Corp. computers to analyze possible defects in Soviet nuclear power plants. Watch also for a more pliant position on telecommunications technology.
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