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...generation of leaders must replace that of President Leonid Brezhnev and his aging associates on the Politburo. There is, meanwhile, growing tension between East and West, with the world's two superpowers increasingly seen to be in confrontation. The military strength of the Soviet Union is clearly the equal of the U.S.'s; the Kremlin is seeking to project its influence in Africa, Asia and the Middle East; with rising anger and suspicion, the Soviet Union and the U.S. assail each other on a dozen geographic and economic fronts...
...party pyramid is the Central Committee, whose 287 members include the most powerful individuals in the nation. Fourteen of the most equal among the equals on the Central Committee constitute the policy-setting Politburo, which has been carefully controlled for most of the past 16 years by Brezhnev and his circle...
Commissioned officers do even better and rank higher in prestige than lawyers and doctors. An army senior lieutenant with three years of service makes about 150 rubles monthly. A colonel's 500 rubles a month is roughly equal to the earnings of a factory manager; the 48 marshals and fleet admirals of the Soviet Union are paid 2,000 rubles monthly, about the same as a Cabinet minister. More important than salary, however, is the officers' access to luxuries unavailable to most Soviet citizens. Officers enjoy free annual vacations at exclusive resorts, top-quality housing and privileges at shops that...
...high hopes for the zinc-chloride system. "Its importance may well be equal to the development of the internal-combustion engine as it replaced the horse and buggy," says Judelson. In about nine months, G&W plans to have two prototype cars built, each with a range of 200 miles between charges. Fiddling with the chemistry could increase the range even more, he adds, with no increase in the system's weight of 544 kg (1,200 Ibs.). G&W calculates operating costs at 2.3? a mile for its Electric Engine, vs. 6.5? for a gasoline-powered equivalent...
...Once the second-quarter G.N.P. estimates are known in two weeks, there is no way to get a fiscal 1981 balanced budget. The revenues will not be there to equal Government spending. We are going through an extraordinary charade in the budget process, which I'm terribly concerned about. We are eating up very precious political capital on the question of budget balancing. This is surely an exercise in utter futility. As soon as it becomes clearly impossible to balance the budget, that is going to be read as carte blanche to a number of people who want...