4/86Percentage increase in the number of Americans planning trips to the Soviet Union in 1986: 54

Russian Travel Bureau (New York City)

4/89Percentage increase, since 1987, in the number of arrests for assault and battery in the Soviet Union: 41

Soviet Embassy (Washington)

7/85Foreign aid budget of the Soviet Union in 1978: $3,500,000,000

U.S. News and World Report

    In 1985: $2,500,000,000

U.S. News and World Report

4/86Number of spacecraft launched by the United States in 1985: 17

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

    By the Soviet Union: 98

U.S. Department of Defense

7/86Amount the United States spent in 1985 on radio broadcasts to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union: $146,559,000

Voice of America/Radio Free Europe (Washington, D.C.)

    Estimated amount the Soviet Union spent trying to jam those broadcasts: $300,000,000

Radio Free Europe