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...describe what political lexicographer William Safire calls the "supposedly ad-lib remarks made by the President on minor occasions." But that was before George Bush and a phalanx of congressional leaders strolled into the Rose Garden last Friday morning to announce that they had hammered out the 1990 budget concordat. Now, in updated fashion, Rose Garden rubbish can also be defined as "the unveiling of a cynical, bipartisan arrangement to avoid difficult decisions on the deficit through the use of artful arithmetic, Panglossian projections and other green-eyeshade gimmickry...
...Hemmed in as he is, the risk for Bush is that his Administration could drift for months without major victories -- or, worse, be burdened with a mortifying setback. Already, the uplifting sermons have begun to sound repetitious and a trifle hollow. A budget concordat with Congress would, of course, provide the tonic that Bush craves, but the Oct. 15 Gramm-Rudman deadline all but ensures that serious negotiations will be delayed until late summer. In the interim, Bush should have more than enough time to grapple with that transcendent -- but still unanswered -- question: What precisely does he want to accomplish...
...Roman Catholic Society of the Missionaries of Charity and one among 2,000 foreign volunteers taking part in the unprecedented relief effort. The tiny, veiled nun nodded approvingly as the Communist official showed her a new information bulletin created to help reunite missing family members. It was an unusual concordat of hearts, if not of minds, that would have been inconceivable before the disaster opened Armenia to the world...
Atlanta becomes a display of unprecedented harmony as the nominee and Jesse Jackson find common ground. How the concordat of cooperation was hammered out. -- Moments of high comedy at the convention, from TelePrompTer snafus to VIPS locked out of the Omni. -- Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger critiques Dukakis' foreign policy...
...things stood last week, Kung is a supposedly verbotener theologian who remains a member of Tübingen's Catholic faculty and head of its Institute for Ecumenical Research. But in compliance with the concordat, Kung will no longer officially instruct would-be priests or those training to teach Catholic theology, formerly 60% of his students. They may sit in on his lectures, but will not receive academic credit. The minister-president of Baden-Württemberg state, Lothar Spath, plans a "careful legal examination" of the concordat to determine whether Kung can remain on the Catholic faculty at Tübingen...