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<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>