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Concerning the technologies specifically involved in Star Wars, the booklet concludes that the Soviet effort "represents a far greater investment of plant space, capital and manpower" than the American SDI. It provides only one partial budgetary comparison: Soviet efforts to develop laser beams as warhead-killing weapons "would cost roughly $1 billion per year (to duplicate) in the U.S." That would be about triple the $340 million the U.S. spent on SDI laser development in fiscal 1985. The booklet does present some tantalizing, and disturbing, tidbits of more specific information. Samples...
...event, Cameron asked students to pick up packets of his pamphlets before leaving, but only three paid for the booklet...
...program, Vremya, devoted a full hour to reading the interview text, while TASS, the official news agency, rounded up favorable comments from as far away as Zimbabwe. The U.S.S.R.'s state publishing house put on sale, at ten kopecks (12 cents) each, 200,000 copies of a 30-page booklet containing the text of the interview as compiled --and slightly censored--by TASS. The agency deleted a joking allusion to an aged Soviet Finance Minister and a glancing mention of Nikita Khrushchev, who apparently is still a nonperson in the U.S.S.R. Most striking, TASS changed a Gorbachev reference...
...heard from since September 1984, when he was abruptly transferred from his top job in Moscow to the U.S.S.R.'s western military headquarters in Minsk. There was widespread speculation that Ogarkov had clashed with the Kremlin's leadership over military policy. Last week History Teaches Vigilance, a 96-page booklet written by Ogarkov on Soviet defense strategy, was published by the Defense Ministry. Its publication, a foreign diplomat in Moscow theorized, means that Ogarkov "is not in complete disgrace...
...first-time effort to publicize community service programs. Harvard has published a comprehensive booklet outlining a host of resources and University-run activities and available to the general public...