Word: marshaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miles. During field exercises at nearby Taman Division army base, Carlucci watched as warplanes streaked overhead and the earth trembled from mock explosions. The spectacle was a high point in the new military exchange between U.S. and Soviet officials. Several weeks ago, Soviet Chief of Staff Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev was allowed near the American B-1 bomber. Still, on- site inspections are not likely to replace sophisticated satellite reconnaissance. Of his unprecedented inspection of the Blackjack, Carlucci said, "I couldn't tell one instrument from another...
...nuclear missiles. The Soviet leader makes no secret of his hopes that continuing strategic arms talks and conventional-weapo ns negotiations will reduce the defense burden. To decrease East-West tensions further, Moscow and Washington have embarked on a series of unprecedented exchanges between their military leaders. Last month Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the Soviet Chief of Staff, peered into the cockpit of a B-1B bomber and visited the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt during a six-day American tour. Carlucci on his four-day trip planned to board a missile ship in the Black Sea and inspect...
...Carlucci may feel a twinge of envy on his travels in the Soviet Union. While the Pentagon is awash in public procurement scandals, the Soviet armed forces operate behind a veil of secrecy that even insiders cannot always penetrate. Marshal Akhromeyev stunned his hosts during his recent U.S. tour by conceding that military leaders do not know precisely how much the Kremlin spends annually to develop weapons. Procurement as well as research and development is funded by the central government, he said, and the costs do not show up in the military budget. Those two items alone represent close...
...usually found myself stuck for a reply. It was difficult enough to conjure up the picture of Soviet generals -- hefty, beetle-browed men in bulky overcoats -- leaning over a map while the Air Marshal for Nuclear War Contingency Planning says, "Then we'll get Atlanta and take out all the Southeastern branch offices in one swoop." Even if that were the Russians' plan, how would Atlanta people know about it? A Chamber of Commerce mole in the Kremlin? Even if they knew about it, why would they boast about it? Who wants to be up toward the front...
Akhromeyev's pilgrimage was set up by Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The two leaders got along so well during a meeting at the Pentagon last December that Crowe figured a longer visit would improve relations. Military brass insist that the Soviet marshal will not get a peek at any vital secrets during his trip, but he will get to glimpse such vital institutions as a rodeo and a western-style barbecue when his tour reaches Crowe's home state of Oklahoma...