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- GRAPEVINE, Page 19THE GLASNOST-BOTTOM BOAT
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Georgia Harbison
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- There are clear signs that Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms
- are taking hold even in the Soviet military. According to U.S.
- intelligence sources, annual tank production has dropped from
- 3,500 in 1988 to just 800, and similar cutbacks are taking place
- on Air Force assembly lines. While the Soviet navy remains the
- lone holdout against perestroika by continuing a nuclear-carrier
- program, there are encouraging signs of change there too. The
- Severodvinsk shipyards have produced a tourist submarine,
- complete with large glass viewing portholes and devices for
- picking things up off the ocean floor.
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