home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=91TT1747>
- <title>
- Aug. 05, 1991: The Glasnost-Bottom Boat
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 05, 1991 Was It Worth It?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 19
- The Glasnost-Bottom Boat
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Georgia Harbison
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
-
- </body></article>
- </text>
-
-