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Henry Kissinger says about Iran: "The remedial measures that are needed in this crisis should receive bipartisan support. There will be opportunities later to discuss what went wrong." This reasoning led to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. Thanks for the reminder, Henry...
SALT II, perhaps the most crucial business before the Senate, will be subjected to stern scrutiny. Democratic Whip Alan Cranston of California has put together a bipartisan group of Senators who have been meeting with Administration officials to exchange views on SALT. Cranston acknowledges that the treaty "can't be based on trust that the Soviet Union will live up to its terms. We've got to have the ability to monitor their adherence or nonadherence." SALT opponents, who estimate that they have close to 25 solid votes against the pact (34 are needed to defeat it), have...
...Where's the compassion? Most bipartisan groups that have recommended moving toward private accounts also call for a minimum guaranteed benefit to ensure that more seniors do not fall into poverty. Bush vows to preserve the existing safety net for survivors and disabled workers but, so far, he does not guarantee a high enough safety net for poorer workers, or for those who do not fare well in the stock market...
...projected deficit by two thirds) and allow workers to invest a sixth of their payroll taxes, as well as additional voluntary contributions (possibly matched by government dollars), in low-risk stock or bond funds. Such a plan, says Donald Marron, CEO of Paine Webber and chairman of the bipartisan National Commission on Retirement Policy, "doesn't break the budget, lifts more elderly out of poverty and makes everyone an owner of the American economy...
...Secretary] Mel Laird. Maybe as a troubleshooter, a coordinator, to work with Congress. I'd find a place for Nelson Rockefeller. If you have a fellow like Rockefeller in the country, you should never put him on the shelf. If the world sees that the country is going bipartisan to combat inflation, then the country will be in shape to go forward...