November 19, 1998

World Briefing

RUSSIA: SHAM MISSILES ON PARADE
Many of the huge missiles displayed in Red Square parades in the Soviet era were only dummies, but they scared the West into an expensive response, a weekly reported. One such fake, shown in a May 9, 1965, parade prompted the United States to build an antimissile defense system worth billions of dollars, said the magazine, Vlast.
(AP)