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...covering early retirees and for assisting small businesses. ''I don't know how they can put up a bill they can defend,'' says Congressman Jim McDermott, a liberal Democrat and author of a rival proposal. Meanwhile, conservatives in Washington and on the radio talk-show circuit are raising basic questions about the very existence of a detailed plan. In fact, there is a broad program, and constituencies that oppose it are using the current void to make their case. The Health Insurance Association of America and its grass-roots allies last week began running a TV commercial that shows...
...Reagan to repeat that statement once again, only this time in a document co-signed by Gorbachev. Thus, even though the devil would be in the details and a full treaty would probably take many months if not years to negotiate, there is no mystery about the basic ingredients of a framework agreement that Reagan and Gorbachev could sign this year or next. They are evident to both advocates and opponents of arms control within the Administration. That is why the opponents, led by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Richard Perle, have been waging a fierce but largely invisible campaign...
...spare parts were running so short that the commission projected that this year's flight schedule would have been sharply curtailed even without a Challenger disaster. Reagan gave James Fletcher, NASA's new administrator, 30 days to explain how he intends to implement the commission's recommendations. A more basic decision on whether to replace Challenger with a new, fourth orbiter remained uncertain. At his press conference the President encouraged the embattled space agency by saying, ''I think we should go forward with another shuttle.'' But one Administration source insists that ''there's a raging debate at the White House...
...eager to preserve SALT II point to assessments suggesting that abandoning the agreement could backfire on the U.S. According to a report prepared by the CIA for the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, the Soviets would be better suited to capitalize on the scrapping of SALT II because of two basic advantages: active production lines for manufacturing ICBMs, strategic bombers and submarine-launched missiles; and the greater throw weight of Soviet missiles, which would allow them to be loaded up with many more warheads. House Armed Services Chairman Les Aspin says the Soviet production-line superiority would permit Soviet strategic forces...
...cautioned against assuming too much from Burger's apparent defection. Harvard Law School's Laurence Tribe called the upbeat statements from pro-lifers a ''kind of premature crowing that is not warranted,'' adding that ''anyone who is thoughtful recognizes that the court is not 5 to 4 on the basic issue of Roe vs. Wade. There is no evidence that (Dissenting Justice Sandra Day) O'Connor or the Chief Justice would be prepared to overrule Roe, although both are disturbed by some of the detailed elaborations and distinctions.'' The Pennsylvania law, which was passed in 1982, would have required physicians...