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Both sides remain publicly committed to their agreed-upon goal of cutting $50 billion out of the deficit next year as a down payment on $500 billion in reductions by 1996. But despite the burst of bipartisan determination, Bush is unlikely to be presented with an accord when he returns to Washington. As the talks began, Democrats suggested instituting a vaguely defined tax on energy and eliminating the income tax provision that reduces the marginal tax rate for the wealthiest Americans from 33% to 28%. Both ideas are anathema to Republicans, some of whom, like House minority whip Newt Gingrich...
...Bush Administration and its bipartisan supporters in Congress believe the civil war will be brought to an end only through a "comprehensive" settlement that includes removal of the nominally communist Hun Sen government. Others, like former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie and Democratic Senator Robert Kerrey, think the war could end through regular government-to-government contact between Washington and Phnom Penh and the lifting of the U.S.-led economic boycott of Cambodia. The former vision may be grander; the latter has a far better chance of success...
...member of the budget-summit conference group, lashed out at "tax-and-spend Democrats" and said it was impossible to deal with them as if they were "responsible people." Michel, charged by the White House with the task of working out cooperative budget negotiations, seethed at this torching of bipartisan goodwill. Visitors to Michel's office say that when Gingrich pops up breathing fire and smoke on the TV screen, some staff members erupt in groans or laughter while the leader flushes and sometimes shakes his head in despair...
...death of at least 1 million fellow Cambodians during their reign of terror from 1975 to 1978. Last month the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted against further covert aid to the tripartite coalition; the corresponding House committee was expected to follow suit. Two weeks ago, a bipartisan group of 11 Senators circulated a letter asking the Administration to alter its policy...
...budget deficit widening to as much as $200 billion. Only last month, Bush invited leaders of both parties on Capitol Hill to join him in budget talks, in which all participants could propose necessary but unpopular tax increases and spending cuts without fear of political attack. Bush wants a bipartisan budget agreement to get himself off the hook of his most famous campaign pledge: to cut the deficit without raising taxes. Yet his renewed donkey bashing makes some Democrats wonder whether they may be blamed for the bitter medicine that could emerge from any budget accord...