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Comic as the scene appeared, the tinny noise and dimmed chamber were depressingly apt metaphors for the goings-on in official Washington. In a spectacle of cross-accusations and intraparty squabbling that was politically bloody even by the capital's standards, legislators and Ronald Reagan finally reached agreement on a budget resolution that set spending targets for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. Senate and House negotiators worked late into the night, and Reagan, in one spectacular heave, sandbagged the Senate leadership of his own party. Almost no one was happy with the watered-down document that emerged, and everyone...
However, only 14% expressed "a lot of confidence" that there will be presidential-congressional agreement on a budget that would reduce the shortfall significantly. Despite the fact that the deficit has more than tripled during Reagan's term, his Teflon coating seems intact: only 19% say he is most responsible for the red ink, down from 26% two months ago. More people are likely to blame Congress (27%) and past Democratic Presidents (30%). Republicans are particularly forgiving: only 6% blame Reagan for the deficit...
...nuclear arsenal rather than stressing negotiations on nuclear disarmament. A resounding 69% felt the President's emphasis should instead be on disarmament. Yet Americans are cynical about any change for the better. According to the poll, 55% think that the Soviets would not adhere to an arms-control agreement...
Those sweeping words and the many thousands that followed became enshrined in the 1975 Helsinki Final Act. The document, signed by 33 European nations, the U.S. and Canada, was an agreement to work together on common problems, from reuniting families to conducting research on permafrost, from forecasting earthquakes to forewarning about military maneuvers. Ten years later, the assessment of those noble pledges has soured. Said Secretary of State George Shultz at last week's commemorative session in the Finnish capital: "The most important promises of a decade ago have not been kept...
Other areas of the Helsinki agreement have promoted trade and scientific and technological cooperation, and strengthened confidence-building measures, like prior notification of NATO and Warsaw Pact military movements involving more than 25,000 troops. The signatories also recognized the inviolability of postwar European borders, conceding to the Soviets their own sphere of influence...