For one thing, the company does own a modern plant in a suburb of Prague that could probably be adapted to meet anticipated growth in Western demand.

Such a limit would be intended to partially accommodate the Russians, who have resisted earlier Western demands for deeper cuts in their conventional aircraft, officials said.

But it falls short of Western demands, because Moscow would include some but not all of its air-to-air fighters.

He did not, however, agree to a key Western demand: withdrawing Serbian security forces from the province.

The new Soviet proposal still falls short of Western demands.

Verification has been the key Western demand, and for good reason.

Western demand for squirrel declined and Moscow controlled the sources of luxury fur east of the White Sea.

As a dictator he cannot afford to lose face by bowing to Western demands.

Some Chinese leaders treat Western demands on human rights as a continuation of Western interference in China's internal affairs.

The goose's liver would be removed to satisfy Western demand for pate, and the rest of the bird would be sold to the Soviet market.