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PRODUCTION: Stephen F. Demeter (Systems Manager); Joseph J. Scafidi (Deputy); Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, Peter K. Niceberg, L. Rufino-Armstrong, Lee R. Sparks (Supervisors); Robert L. Becker, Silvia Castaneda Contreras, Michael Dohne, Osmar Escalona, Garry Hearne, Nora Jupiter, Agustin Lamboy, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Sandra Maupin, Helen May, Michael Skinner...
...know how much it costs. The government sets prices arbitrarily, so they bear no relation to the actual market value of the planes, tanks and missiles produced. The weapons programs were measured by input: so much steel, titanium and manpower. "The Defense Ministry simply ordered up weapons," says Abraham Becker, a senior Soviet specialist at the Rand Corp., "and the Ministry of Finance paid the bill. Finance didn't know whether the weapons were needed, and Defense didn't know whether they were worth the cost...
...gross national product. Experts in Washington now put the real expenditure at about 30% of GNP. When Richard Nixon visited Moscow recently, Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov used figures indicating that the cost is closer to 40% of GNP and that the Soviet GNP is smaller than Western estimates. Says Becker: "No society can endure that level of defense spending...
PRODUCTION: Stephen F. Demeter (Systems Manager); Joseph J. Scafidi (Deputy); Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, Peter K. Niceberg, L. Rufino-Armstrong, Lee R. Sparks (Supervisors); Robert L. Becker, Silvia Castaneda Contreras, Michael Dohne, Osmar Escalona, Garry Hearne, Nora Jupiter, Agustin Lamboy, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Sandra Maupin, Helen May, Michael Skinner...
PRODUCTION: Stephen F. Demeter (Systems Manager); Joseph J. Scafidi (Deputy); Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, Peter K. Niceberg, L. Rufino-Armstrong, Lee R. Sparks (Supervisors); Robert L. Becker, Silvia Castaneda Contreras, Michael Dohne, Osmar Escalona, Garry Hearne, Nora Jupiter, Agustin Lamboy, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Sandra Maupin, Helen May, Michael Skinner...