EAST EUROPE LURES ONE-THIRD OF US FIRMS

The newly opened markets in Eastern European nations are in the plans of 35 percent of the 1,500 largest United States companies, according executives polled by Opinion Research Corporation. The study shows that US companies are most likely to do business in East Germany (48 percent), the Soviet Union (32 percent), Poland (31 percent), Hungary (27 percent), and Czechoslovakia (26 percent).