Word: exportable
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David Webster, a former director of the BBC and now a senior fellow of the Annenberg Washington Program on Communications Policy, calls high-tech information gear "the essential hardware of freedom." He rightly urges the U.S. to ease restrictions on the export of such equipment to communist lands, since it will serve the ruled better than the rulers...
Rumania is potentially a prosperous country, but Ceausescu's compulsion to pay off a $10 billion foreign debt led him to sell most of the country's oil and food production abroad and ration everything at home. Last week supplies his regime had hoarded for export -- and for the old communist elite -- were rushed into empty stores, and shoppers were dazzled to find meat, oranges, coffee and chocolate, the kind of goods that had not been available to them for years...