The World - News from May 21, 1985
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Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige met in Moscow with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev and presented a letter from President Reagan urging increased trade between the superpowers. Baldrige told Gorbachev that “there probably can be no fundamental change in the trade relationship without parallel improvements in other aspects of the relationship.” The Soviet chief said the “unsatisfactory condition of trade between the two countries” is the result of politically based U.S. trade discrimination against his country.
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