The next day I submitted my own seven-year balanced budget plan. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter had supported Habitat for years. Kravchuk faced considerable opposition in parliament to getting rid of his nuclear weapons, and I wanted to support him. Yeltsin got hit hard by the old Communists, who said he had caved in to me on the important issues.
No responsible President, Republican or Democrat, could have allowed that defense bill to become law. e New Markets program, the trade bill for Africa and the Caribbean, and the Millennium Debt Relief effort. I came away from the meeting believing Yeltsin had picked a successor who had the skills and capacity for har 5 billion for all the former Soviet states, with two-thirds going to Russia.
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