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Your correspondent Terry Atlas reported from Brussels that ”American officials left Moscow describing Gorbachev . . . only superficially informed about the U.S., given to using such outmoded expressions as `military-industrial complex.` ”
If this term, so emphasized by Dwight Eisenhower in his farewell address, is now outmoded, it is because the Reagan administration and its officials have become identical with the American military-industrial complex.
What ”American officials” did not perceive in Moscow is that the Soviet military-industrial complex is also penetrating the Kremlin, as Khrushchev more than once implied.
