Gorbachev Cuts Troops
Will raised the question of why the Soviet Union is spending so much on arms but he didn’t give the right answer. They do it for exactly the same reason we do. In both nations the military-industrial complexes have overriding political clout and keep the hoi polloi bemused by incessantly proclaiming the dreadfulness of the threat posed by the other nation.
A.M. MOOD
Irvine
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