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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some legislators and medical officials say the job action, which does not include Harvard-employed physicians, may be easing in response to assurances that state lawmakers will act to address their concerns...
...spat was a discouraging omen for a year on Capitol Hill that promises to be the fiscal equivalent of Apocalypse Now. Beginning this week, as the President delivers his delayed annual State of the Union address to Congress and submits his budget proposal for fiscal year 1987, the Government must face up to the full force of Gramm-Rudman, the automatic deficit-reduction measure enacted last year to balance the budget by 1991. Unless Congress and the White ^ House can fashion a budget that reduces the federal deficit (now estimated at more than $220 billion for fiscal 1986, which began...
...President's opening gambit shows no give at all. The budget that he touts in his address to Congress and releases publicly on Wednesday is essentially a reiteration of his standard line. As he has done ever since he took office in 1981, Reagan will insist that it is possible to slash the deficit, increase defense spending (next year by 3% after inflation), and still not raise taxes. Using rosy economic forecasts to lowball the deficit, the White House would lop off the $40 billion or so mandated by Gramm-Rudman by making brutal cuts in domestic spending. Some federal...
...State of the Union address, the President will try to depict his budget plan as an exciting opportunity to liberate the forces of free enterprise from the shackles of Big Government. It is doubtful that many Congressmen will be moved. Already last week some legislators were pronouncing the Reagan budget "dead before arrival." Still, more realistic Hill leaders were aware that the President's budget cannot be dismissed out of hand, as it has been in the past. Congressional budget writers may differ on how to get there, but Gramm-Rudman requires that Congress and the White House arrive...
...Nonetheless, Jonas Savimbi, head of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), has become a test case for hard-line conservatives on the Administration's commitment to the so-called Reagan Doctrine. The President affirmed that policy a year ago in his State of the Union address. "We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives on every continent, from Afghanistan to Nicaragua, to defy Soviet-supported aggression," Reagan stated. "Support for freedom fighters is self-defense...