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Abstract
Note from the editors of Literaturnaia gazeta: As has already been announced, a meeting of the American-Soviet Trade and Economic Council (ASTEC) took place in Moscow on 15-18 November of this year [1982]. One of the sessions was devoted to a discussion on the topic "The Role of Soviet-American Trade in the 1980s and Beyond." Among the Americans who spoke were M. Forestal, former president of the Council and a partner in the well-known law firm of Sherman and Sterling; Congressmen W. Frenzel (Minnesota) and D. Bereuter (Nebraska); and United States Ambassador A. Hartman (whose speech The New York Times characterized as unprecedented in its harshness). Among those who spoke from the Soviet side was the Director of the Institute on the USA and Canada of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician G. A. Arbatov. The text of his speech is published below.