BRUSSELS : More Aid For Eastern Europe
Foreign ministers of 24 of the world’s richest nations are expected to expand their program of economic aid for the democratizing regimes of eastern Europe during a meeting on Wednesday. Originally, the so-called Group of 24--including the nations of Western Europe plus Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, and the United States--planned to assist only Hungary and Poland. But now Czechoslovakia almost certainly will be added to the list, and Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia may also get help.
East Germany, now under Bonn’s economic wing, will not figure in the talks. But Western aid for Moscow--advocated by France and West Germany while so far opposed in Washington--may come up.
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