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Senate Democrats, led by Ted Kennedy and Alan Cranston, have offered a slightly less drastic measure that includes relief for black South Africans and neighboring countries. Although it has little chance of being passed intact, it has forced moderate Senators to seek a compromise. Lugar, who pledged to work with both Shultz and Senate Democrats, expected to spend part of the weekend finishing a plan directed at putting maximum pressure on the white ruling class while sparing the black majority unnecessary economic repercussions. It expands on the limited measure imposed by Reagan last September, which prohibited the purchase of Krugerrands...
Shultz, though he has long been an advocate of sticking with SALT II, was blunt. At a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Halifax, N.S., he described the agreement, which would have expired in 1985, as "obsolete, unratified and being violated." He stressed that the Administration is interested in drastic reductions in nuclear arsenals and said that from now on the U.S. will decide its arms policy on Soviet behavior, including human rights violations and actions in Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Cambodia...
Reagan's original budget proposal included $2 billion in cuts from federal student aid, eliminating financial awards to more than 2 million students. Experts feared that these cuts would lead to drastic cutbacks in the number of grant recipients and the collapse of the GSL program...
Despite its apparent mainstream acceptance, the bill contains features that will be loudly debated in the days ahead and, if passed, will force businesses to make drastic changes. Among them...
...years and keep the measure from losing revenue. Even if the committee's bill survives the upcoming battle on the Senate floor, it will still have to be reconciled with a version passed by the House last December, which also cuts rates and closes many loopholes but is less drastic than the Packwood plan...