Out of Bounds

sector unrequited by large enough investment in mechanisation of agriculture to compensate for the loss of manpower through increased productivity. In industry too the demands of amis build-up and expansion of production of consumption goods have very likely .squeezed the flow of resources into the basic industrial sectors and into re- .search and development, making for the technological lag which has been brought out so clearly in the expansion of the Soviet Union's economic ties with the West, Some adjustments have been proposed recently in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, currently under implementation, such as raising the proportion of investment in agriculture. Such adjustments will, however, he necessarily limited by the proclaimed resolve to match "rouble for dollar" the Reagan administration's military buildup.