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...near the brink, despite the end of the cold war and the dismantling of thousands of warheads, because the people and the machines that control Russia's nuclear arsenal are being neglected. Like the rest of the armed forces, the soldiers in the Strategic Nuclear Forces (SNF) are largely unpaid, unfed and unhappy. The delicate computer networks at the heart of the nuclear force are not being maintained properly, and the safeguards that prevent accidental or unauthorized launches are fraying...
...addition, the bill charges debtors late fees for each month a judgment goes unpaid and prohibits debtors from renewing their driver's licenses...
...prosecuted for a tax crime are about the same as for being murdered on the street, 17 in a million. Fewer than 4 of every 10,000 nonfilers ever get caught. Not filing is known as noncompliance, small beer to the IRS. "We eat $200 billion a year in unpaid taxes," says Representative Bill Archer, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees the IRS. "All of that is fraud." The IRS's computer problems, he says, "open the door to more and more fraud...
...tsin pen starts scribbling, canning ministers deemed "responsible" for Russia's woes. Chubais himself took the blame in an early round. It remains to be seen whether Yeltsin's new government will prove any more adept at tackling the country's pressing problems: growing mafia influence, widespread government corruption, unpaid salaries and pensions, spotty tax collection, a crumbling infrastructure, a demoralized and ill-trained army, and a lackluster economy...
...helm of a foundering Russia, Boris Yeltsin proved at least one thing: h e has been paying attention. Addressing both houses of parliament in a nationally televised State of Russia address, Yeltsin provided a long and unsparing litany of Russia's ills. The president covered them all: from unpaid taxes to unpaid wages, from crime and poverty in the streets to corruption in the government, from an expanding NATO and a crumbling military to Chechnya, the tiny republic yearning to wriggle free. But the centerpiece of Russian renewal, Yeltsin insisted, must be filli ng the national coffers--and improving their...