U.S. Defense Panel to Hear Soviet Side
The House Armed Services Committee, which helps write Pentagon budgets, will hear soon from the Soviets--including an adviser to President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Chairman Les Aspin said Monday.
Sometime in June, the Wisconsin Democrat said, the committee expects to hear from Marshal Sergei F. Akhromeyev, former chief of the Soviet general staff and now adviser to Gorbachev. And the committee’s defense policy panel will hear May 9 from officials of the Institute for the U.S.A. and Canada, Moscow’s chief think tank on superpower relations.
Gorbachev has ordered military cutbacks in Eastern Europe. If those pledges are carried out, some of the impact should be visible next year when Congress starts work on the fiscal 1991 Defense Department budget, Aspin said, and could be taken into account in fashioning a spending plan.
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