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...Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has described the Soviet involvement in Afghanistan as illegal and immoral. Similar things were said in the U.S. about the American involvement in Viet Nam, and this had a demoralizing effect on the U.S. military for many years. What impact do you see on the Soviet military...
...also scarred those who participated in the war, especially the young, demobilized from the army. Many say they will never be themselves again. I also participated in the war and was there for 2 1/2 years. I was an older soldier who could endure the scars, but the effect on the young was different...
...Whether the U.S. defense budget is $299 billion or $320 billion, it would have no effect on the standard of living of the American people. But in our conditions, an increase or decrease of the military budget by 6 billion or 7 billion rubles has a direct influence on the material well-being of the people. Any cut in the military budget makes it possible to come more quickly out of our difficulties. The military is well aware of that. We are keeping the minimum required for maintaining the armed forces in a state of readiness to rebuff a possible...
...After failing to force the Senate to include such a reduction in next year's budget bill, Bush abandoned the idea last week. The President's backdown could provide the basis for a compromise that would undo $16 billion in across-the-board spending cutbacks that went into effect last month. If no agreement can be reached, $8.1 billion will be slashed from popular programs such as Medicare and college loans...
...effect of what McCutcheon calls an "astronomical escalation of people" has been unaccustomed congestion, a 28% inflation of real estate values in just 18 months and a perceptibly upscale -- Washingtonians would say ostentatious -- change in the appearance and style of some of Seattle's suburbs. With that has come a tendency to tar California with guilt by association -- for damage to the environment, for fast-talking wheeling and dealing, and for the drug trafficking among offshoots of Los Angeles gangs in the blue-collar districts of Tacoma. California has also become a political buzz word. "Any candidate...