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<text id=90TT2117>
<title>
Aug. 13, 1990: World Notes:Britain
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Aug. 13, 1990 Iraq On The March
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 31
World Notes
BRITAIN
Making Peace Pay at Home
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<p> Even before British Defense Secretary Tom King unveiled his
five-year plan for reductions in the country's armed forces in
Parliament two weeks ago, lawmakers were debating how to spend
the resulting "peace dividend." King's program, a response to
the decreased threat from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union,
calls for reducing regular forces 18% over five years.
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<p> The cuts, according to some estimates, will trim $1.1
billion from Britain's $38.6 billion defense budget. There is
no dearth of ideas on how best to spend the windfall:
suggestions range from funding Britain's flagging social
services to protecting the environment. But, warns David
Greenwood, director of the Center for Defense Studies at the
University of Aberdeen, "it's not a political gold mine for the
Health Minister or the Transport Minister to put his hand in
now." Inflation and modernization programs could gobble up most
of the money before a single pound gets spent.
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