WATCHING GOVERNMENT HELPING RUSSIA, HURTING THE U.S.?

With Patrick Crow from Washington, D.C. U.S. independents are annoyed that the Clinton administration's impending gas and oil initiative will not offer tax incentives or oil import relief to encourage production. And they are even more annoyed at how the U.S. is trying to boost oil output in the Former Soviet Union (FSU). A foreign aid bill this fall contained more than $2 billion for FSU countries, including $185 million earmarked for enhancing trade specifically mentioning energy trade),