to beviet union is going a second or third rate economic power they don't begin shifting resources away from their military. they are already in danger of heading in that direction, and i think what you have is a society in deep trouble and a new soviet leadership that understands that and is desperately tryinto dig themselves out of this mess in a way which may or may not succeed. know how you continue with the heavy-handed economic planning that society has and at the same time, move toward a price system. they will have to decide to take some unemployment and some of the frictions of a free and more open economy. to put upou have with, but you have to assume it's going to be part of a much more open economic system. that, i think has been the most powerful incentive to get to the table and stay there. i don't know whether gorbachev believes what he says, but if he says a strategic weapons reduction agreement is in hand, if this united states is abmared to abide i the treaty interpretation, then i assume the agreement would be in hand, so what's the need for a bargaining chip? >> a mi