Consider if someday an independent Quebec decided to invite the Russians to train and supply its army (France having long since gone bust in the new Euro Reich) and applied for associate membership of Russia's revived Commonwealth of Independent States.

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It is, in fact, entirely possible -- Treasury Secretary Brady's denials to the contrary notwithstanding -- that the "technical assistance" from these organizations to which the Soviet Union will become entitled by dint of its "associate membership status" will rapidly evolve into full membership status before or at the Munich Summit next year.

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An effort by the United States government to use surreptitiously the "associate IMF membership" gambit newly, and uniquely, invented for the Soviet Union to circumvent the Johnson Debt Default Act of 1934.

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It is worth noting that, in the meantime, associate IMF membership might also have the virtue of vitiating the prohibitions imposed by the 1934 Johnson Debt Default Act enabling the USSR for the first time to issue bonds and other securities instruments in the United States.

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It is worth noting that, in the meantime, associate IMF membership might also have the virtue of vitiating the prohibitions imposed by the 1934 Johnson Debt Default Act -- enabling the USSR for the first time to issue bonds and other securities instruments in the United States.

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The tariff rise makes it harder for Chile to move from its present associate status to full membership of Mercosur.

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Chile, a Mercosur associate since last year, had been expected to move soon to full membership.

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