Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant CIA Files - Paperless Archives

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Compensation may also have been on the agenda ot the
unprecedented meeting Soviet leader Gorbachev had with East
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European party leaders following the regular session of the Warsaw
Pact's Political Consultative Committee In 8udapest that involved
larger delegations. In public, however, th~s. have avoided any
hint they might compensate any country._
The Soviets have disappointed East European hopes that Gorbachev
would treat his allies more like equals than did his predecessors. The
East Europeans believe themselves unfairly penal/zed by the accident,
but they have little leverage with Moscow. At most, they may signal
their displeasure by dragging elr feet In future mlc
negotIations with the Soviets.
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