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Simultaneously, the U.S.S.R. could begin accelerated development of antisatellite weapons and space mines, which would enable it to destroy or paralyze the U.S. SDI system. It would be especially easy to destroy the comparatively few reconnaissance stations. The cost to the Soviet Union would increase, but it would not exceed acceptable levels. It would be comparable to the expense of sticking to the package approach and the existing level of the arms race...
There were signs that the U.S.S.R. was reacting uneasily to the latest evidence of Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness. In announcing the prisoner release, Gennadi Gerasimov, spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry, said he doubted that the number to be freed at the present time would exceed 280. He acknowledged that the Kremlin's action did not enjoy universal support within the party. "I can say to you that there are comrades who think the harsher the better," he declared. "But at the moment, we are heading into a softening, so that we may have fewer people behind...
...example, should increase at a rate of 3% a year until the end of this century. Even allowing for that, the U.S. fertility rate, now 1.8 children per woman, is expected to remain below the "replacement rate" of 2.1. One grim projection: by 2014, deaths will exceed births...
...AIDS is posing an economic threat in the U.S. The cost of caring for victims of the disease, many of whom are denied health insurance, is already estimated to exceed a billion dollars a year. By 1991 AIDS medical bills could total as much as $14 billion annually, according to Health Economist Anne Scitovsky of the Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Research Foundation, "and that does not begin to address the loss in productivity from the death of people in the prime of life...
...complaint is that some relief workers live in a style that contrasts vividly -- and insultingly -- with the poverty around them. In Mozambique, where about 40 Western agencies have offices, high-ranking aid workers can rent colonial villas staffed by servants and still save large chunks of salaries that may exceed $80,000 a year. That is a sum past reckoning in a country in which the average annual income is about $300. Such imported luxuries as Cuban cigars, French perfumes and Scotch whisky are available in hard-currency stores that Mozambicans seldom enter. "I often wonder who is helping whom...