00767nam a2200085Ia 4500100002200000245004200022260000900064520058900073583001900662  aWEINTRAUB, Sidney  aUS-Latin American economic relations.  c1997  aIs of the view that US relations with Latin America deserve a higher priority in US thinking than they have been given in recent years.  Further, the change in the Latin American development model from protected markets and export pessimism to increasing openess to foreign investment and imports, and more thorough penetration of foreign markets, has stimulated open regionalism.  Recommends that the US (1) provides fast-tract authority for hemispheric trade negotiations; and (2) proposes a schedule for meeting the Miami Summit timetable to complete the FTAA negotiations by 2005.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR