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BUSINESS: As a blueprint for the future, Reagan' s budget is woefully inadequate...
...long-term blueprint for U.S. financial stability, however, the Reagan budget is woefully inadequate. For one thing, the President intends to raise $10 billion in 1989 through the sale of federal assets like the Naval Petroleum Reserves and other one-shot gimmicks that will do nothing to reduce the deficit permanently. The President wants to boost outlays for education, law enforcement, science and AIDS research -- all worthy proposals -- but steadfastly refuses to support tax hikes to finance increased spending over the long run. Moreover, Reagan's budget projections are based on the decidedly optimistic assumption that the gross national product...
...please, an inclination to tell people what he thinks they want to hear. Yet he is tapping a real well of discontent and economic nationalism. Such a message plays well in regions where times are hard and resentment is ready to be roused. But it is hardly a blueprint for governing...
...general's reaction dismayed White House officials. Blandon drew up his plan last fall after mass protests swept Panama, prompted by charges that implicated Noriega in murder, drug smuggling and election fraud. According to Gabriel Lewis, Panama's former U.S. Ambassador, Noriega had asked Blandon for a blueprint that would let him retire without facing U.S. reprisals. Lewis arranged an October meeting between Blandon and Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, who stressed Washington's desire for democracy in Panama...
...Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, it was a moment of truth. He had won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize with a plan to end the violent political struggles that have long plagued Central America. But his five-month-old blueprint, far from halting the region's civil wars, had not even kept the combatants at the bargaining table. "The will for peace does not exist right now," conceded Arias before meeting last week with the four other Central American Presidents who had originally endorsed his plan in Guatemala City. "In 150 days, we have not been able to advance...