G-7 Plan

Your Oct. 31 article, “Economy, in Surprise, Expands at Strong Pace,” is encouraging, despite a few adverse points like the weakening position of U.S. exports in the past Asian-financial-crisis period. The approach proposed by the G-7 countries is a welcome departure from the earlier “wait and see” attitude which, at times, had disastrous consequences.

I only wish this change of attitude had come one year earlier, when the Asian crisis first surfaced. If it had, the number of financially beleaguered countries could perhaps be less.

ARUN K. DUTTA SARMA

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