03/02/1998
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"Russia will take off like a rocket."
"The cuts embodied in the Committee's funding level for USAID assistance programs to the NIS would result in a funding level that is $30 million below the FY 1998 level."
"The challenges we face are formidable."
"New Independent States to stable, market-based democracies is vital to the U.S. national security."