Instead, most legislators seem to have accepted unquestioningly the argument that the money had to be turned over now lest Yeltsin fall or a threat to U.S. security otherwise reemerge from Russia -- one that would require still further billions in U.S. defense spending.
One recent success story: A U.K.-based auto parts manufacturer that serves the ministry of defense was having trouble coming up with a winning design for two parts that needed to perform in an environment with a lot of heat and sand.
Israel has an important stake not only in those programs, but in certain U.S. programs, like the one that would create a sea-based, wide-area defense system that would allow the United States, by stationing a single naval cruiser in the Eastern Mediterranean in a crisis, to add a valuable layer to Israel's missile defenses.