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...Defense Donald Atwood and other hard-line officials have argued that it would be a mistake to keep Russia's missile factories and space reactor plants in business. "We don't want to encourage them," Atwood told a congressional panel recently. After all, missiles can be used to launch nuclear warheads as well as satellites, and reactors could power space weapons...
...hard to squeeze from the anemic Russian budget. Clearly, foreign capital is needed. For several years Moscow has been raising funds by selling visits to Mir, at $10 million to $15 million a pop, to countries such as Japan and England. Several nations, including India, have paid to launch satellites on Russian rockets. Now virtually every branch of the space infrastructure, once financed by the Soviet military, has trade representatives...
Tsongas seemed to lose some momentum after his New Hampshire victory, finishing fourth in South Dakota with 10% and winning the Feb. 23 Maine caucuses with a puny margin over none other than Jerry Brown. Nonetheless, he pulled in enough cash after New Hampshire to launch a five-state advertising blitz last week. Tsongas was outspending the more affluent Clinton in Maryland, where the former Massachusetts Senator seems to have his best chance of showing he can win outside New England...
Other former Soviet republics are already turning their backs on the ruble. Ukraine will launch a new currency called the grivna this spring; Ukraine has made coupons for the money the sole legal tender in state-owned shops. Officially pegged at a rate of one coupon per ruble, the scrip fetches up to 13 rubles on the Ukrainian black market. Belarus intends to issue its own new currency in April, and Moldova and Kazakhstan are planning to print new money as well. Such defections will flood Russia with ever more rubles as the neighboring republics begin exchanging the shaky currency...
...Class of '61 (also for ABC), a two-hour movie about the graduating class at West Point in 1861, which is the pilot for a potential series. Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Bugsy) is developing a TV movie about Baltimore cops for NBC. David Lynch, whose Twin Peaks helped launch the current wave of filmmakers experimenting in TV, is producing a new comedy series for ABC, On the Air, about a TV station in the 1950s...