The letter said arms procurement fell 28 percent between 1988 and 1991.

The group also reiterated the need to unite European military air transport, disaster relief, training and arms procurement.

Prominent tasks conducted by this global network include propaganda, fund raising, arms procurement and shipping.

He is also thought to have been involved in arms procurement.

Funds for arms procurement are appropriated under other items of the Soviet Union's state budget.

Early this year, a bribery scandal about arms procurement led to the defense minister's resignation.

Those efforts are one element in a Federal inquiry into arms procurement.

Its main purpose, however, is partisan - to criticize the Clinton Administration on force readiness and arms procurement.

The army's strategic planning and arms procurement is handled by its military council.

One of the continual organizational problems from the very start was arms procurement.