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...finance these ambitious programs, Mondale advocates tax reform and cutting back in defense spending. Mondale wants to reduce the budget deficit through a combined program of: eliminating weapons systems like the MX missile and the B-1; across-the-board hospital cost containment; repealing tax code indexation; and capping the third year of Reagan's tax cut for the rich...
...Instead of seeking a comprehensive and complex START treaty, with all its negotiating and verification pitfalls, we should settle for a limited, interim agreement. For the time being, I would forgo the more ambitious Reagan proposals for across-the-board reductions, including major cuts in throw-weight and warheads. Instead, I would accept the most recent Soviet counterproposal for a mutual scale-down to 1,800 launchers, but with an added joint limit of, say, 7,500 warheads. Such a simple interim agreement would break the logjam, be easier to verify, provide the basis for a wider treaty later...
...federal grants to the states and the balanced-budget requirement in nearly all state constitutions has forced many Governors to take politically difficult belt-tightening steps. In the past 18 months, 32 states both increased taxes and cut spending. In 1983 thus far, 27 states have approved across-the-board budget cuts (up from 17). Hiring limits have been imposed by 42 states, government workers laid off by 22. Between January 1981 and March 1983, eleven states increased their income taxes; 19 their general sales taxes; 18 their alcohol tax (Utah raised its levy three times in 26 months...
...food service workers' three-year-contract with the University will expire June 19. The union has asked Harvard for a dollar-an-hour, across-the-board wage hike and free medical insurance for workers. Local 26 has introduced a set of "worker dignity" proposals such as a ban on possible subcontracting of food services...
Lawmakers who opposed the paper's call for change were cited in Clarion-Ledger editorials under the designation "Hall of Shame." Legislators protested the unaccustomed pressure, but at the urging of Governor William Winter, as well as the paper, they enacted new school taxes, across-the-board teacher pay raises, reading aid, a stronger compulsory-attendance law and state support for kindergartens. Said Clarion-Ledger Executive Editor Charles Overby, 36: "Pulitzers have come to Mississippi before, some for reporting about things the state failed to do. This one is for what Mississippi...