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...transport and the P-3 antisubmarine plane, the facility has increasingly fallen idle as Pentagon spending has ebbed. For thousands of U.S. defense contractors, the unused hangars near Atlanta are a portent of what may lie ahead for them. As the cold war wanes and the Warsaw Pact unravels, Congress and the Bush Administration have begun to plan for the most substantial reductions in military spending since the end of the Vietnam War. As they do, U.S. military suppliers from Los Angeles to Long Island nervously await decisions on which of their programs will be slashed or eliminated...
...Washington, to which the European powers are looking to calibrate their own reactions, confined the punitive steps it threatened against Moscow to commercial matters. Among the deals under negotiation that might be suspended are a trade agreement that would grant the Soviets most- favored-nation status, a maritime transport pact, and an investment treaty. The U.S. and its allies could also block Moscow's entry into the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the International Monetary Fund and other international bodies, and restrict Soviet access to funds from the nascent European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, a consortium...
Still, not everyone believed that the revolution would succeed, said Mejstrik. Many remembered 1968, when the Soviet Union, frightened by the Prague Spring movement, sent Warswaw Pact tanks rolling across the border in August, he said...
...counterintelligence and arms-control monitoring are likely to go up. However, it should be possible to save some of the enormous resources currently spent by U.S. military intelligence. These include the expensive listening and cryptographic programs that keep track of the Soviet order of battle and intercept Warsaw Pact communications. Cuts may also be made in satellite programs aimed at tactical intelligence gathering...
...trying to preserve as much of its espionage empire as possible. The Soviet Union once could count on East Germany to penetrate West Germany, Czechoslovakia to target military and industrial sources in the West, and Bulgaria to carry out assassinations. Now, however, the KGB's symbiotic relationship with Warsaw Pact agencies is threatened by reformist governments in the region. Though these countries' foreign operations have not yet been curtailed, some spies -- especially East Germans -- are trying to come in from the cold. Last month Markus Wolf, the former head of East German intelligence whose prowess at placing agents in Bonn...