WORLD IN BRIEF : SOVIET UNION : Military Spending Slowed Last Year
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Soviet military spending fell last year for the first time since President Mikhail S. Gorbachev came to power in 1985, the Pentagon said. Moscow slowed the pace of arms production in 1989, particularly tanks, artillery pieces and other equipment for ground forces, the Defense Department said in an annual assessment of Soviet military might. “The likelihood of a conflict stemming from U.S.-Soviet confrontation is lower than it has ever been in the postwar era,” the generally upbeat report concluded.
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