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...Democrats were still busy jockeying for position. Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd called on the President to submit a new budget with a vastly reduced deficit. House Speaker Tip O'Neill proposed a Camp David meeting of Administration and congressional leaders of both parties, at which a bipartisan budget could be worked out. The simplest but also the most provocative proposal was offered by Democratic Congressman James Jones of Oklahoma, chairman of the House Budget Committee: Why not just put the President's budget to a vote on the House floor...
About 15 Boston-area students and 30 Cubans gathered last night on the steps of Memorial Church to alert the Harvard community to the "nature and gravity of the Soviet threat" The rally concluded a series of area events sponsored by the Harvard Conservative Club and a national bipartisan student organization opposing unilateral disarmament...
...which began organizing four months ago at Tufts, is represented on 15 college campuses nationwide and hopes to become an international organization. Tufts coordinator Fabian Bachrach said yesterday. The bipartisan group has at least five Harvard members, most of whom are Conservative Club members, Sauter said...
...Senate's 53 Republicans. Any air of confrontation evaporated as he told the Senators: "Together I believe we can hold down taxes, hold down spending and ensure a national defense that is able to preserve the peace." He said that he would be happy to consider any bipartisan plan that meets those standards, adding: "When we have honest differences, you can count on me to be willing to listen." Declared Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield after the meeting: "He brought a reconciliation in place of estrangement." Added Nevada's Paul Laxalt: "It was upbeat. An obvious show of unity...
Still, the President's visit clarified nothing about the budget, since he coupled his willingness to listen with a warning that "we must stand firm on the three basic commitments." Despite his call for a bipartisan approach, he posed the issues in sharply partisan terms when talking privately with a handful of Republican leaders on the Hill. "What are the Democrats going to run on?" he asked. "Raising taxes? Bargain basement defense when our planes won't fly? Where the hell have they been for the last 40 years? They have been in charge and look...