Russians think they were economic aid. They were quite happy to get them too. I don't know if it's true or not.
IIRC Russia accounts for something like half of US poultry exports today.
--- On Fri, 2/13/09, John Gulick <john_gulick at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Bush legs" were a form of economic aid? I
> thought they were
> a trade concession post-Soviet Russia had to make IN ORDER
> to qualify for international assistance. And I also
> thought,
> incidentally, that this was an overture that GHW Bush made
> to
> Tyson Foods, in order to electorally steal Arkansas from
> Clinton...
> which he didn't.
>