Nick Kotz and Vladimir Shepentov / interviewed by Ian Masters.
Kotz, a pulitzer prize winning journalist and author of Wild Blue Yonder: Money Politics and the B1 Bomber, discusses the inflated United States defense budget, corruption and incompetence in the arms procurement system, and the politics of national defense. Shepenton, a sociologist and pollster in the Soviet Union, discusses the largely negative attitude of the Soviet people toward Gorbacaev's policies.|NICK KOTZ AND VLADIMIR SHEPENTOV / interviewed by Ian Masters. SERIES: National security| no. 7/24/88 - Kotz, a pulitizer prize winning journalist and author of "Wild Blue Yonder: Money Politics and the B1 bomber, discusses the inflated United States defense budget, corruption and incompetence in the arms procurement system, and the politics of national defense. Shepenton, a sociologist and for pollster in the Soviet Union, discusses the largely negative attitude of the Soviet people toward Gorbacaev's policies. BROADCAST: KPFK, 24 July 1989.