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- <title>
- Nov. 26, 1990: Here's Your Helmet, What's Your Hurry?
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 26, 1990 The Junk Mail Explosion!
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 27
- Here's Your Helmet, What's Your Hurry?
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- <body>
- <p>By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- <p> The new command of the Bundeswehr Ost, the remains of the
- former East German army, has inherited a logistical nightmare:
- getting rid of the Soviet army. According to U.S. military
- attaches, the Soviets have more than a million tons of
- munitions stockpiled on German soil, not counting the array of
- tanks, guns, planes and rocket launchers to deliver them. In
- addition, the 380,000 Soviet troops still stationed in East
- Germany occupy some 2,000 military "objects," which means
- everything from barracks to hospitals to airfields. If the
- Soviets meet the current four-year timetable for withdrawal,
- they will have to dispose of about 500 of those "objects"
- annually, more than one a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a
- year. The economic dislocations--not to mention the munitions
- tonnage--could be explosive.
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- </body>
- </article>
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