Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ISSUES. For months Carter has let it be known that he would start no expensive new social programs this year. The nation simply could not afford them, and they also could help boost inflation, which last month reached an annual rate of 10%. Carter opposed any major additions to Ford's proposed $440 billion budget for fiscal 1978 which begins on Oct. 1 (see story page 15). Says one White House insider: "There were some who thought all they had to do was take their case to Jimmy and he'd give them what they wanted." They learned...
...tensions in the Middle East." If the fact that Hussein was being paid privately had become known, argues the intelligence community, his effectiveness as a moderate would have been undermined; radicals could more easily have discounted his efforts. The Intelligence Oversight Board questioned the payments to Hussein, but Gerald Ford continued them because Henry Kissinger felt they were vital...
Carter has increased former President Ford's budget from $440 billion to $459 billion, with an estimated $57.4 billion deficit, compared with Ford's $47 billion. The biggest boost is $8 billion in spending for economic stimulus. By restoring cuts that Ford had made in such social programs as food stamps, child nutrition, Medicare and Medicaid, Carter added $4.5 billion to the budget. Ford had proposed a $11 billion increase in Defense Department appropriations to bring the Pentagon budget to $124.3 billion; Carter has requested about $3 billion less...
...willingness to negotiate significant armament restrictions offer an important opportunity for Warnke when the talks begin again next month in Moscow, but much will depend on administration support. Recent actions by Carter and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown offer little reason for hope. Although Carter's amendments to the Ford defense budget promise certain reductions, they are achieved primarily by stretching out purchases of new weapons systems like the B-1 and the M-X rather than aiming for permanent reductions. If these "reductions" are meant as signals to the Soviet Union of American restraint, they are feeble ones, hardly...
...opportunity the agency has had to make its voice heard has been the preparation of "arms control impact statements." Legislation passed two years ago requires an assessment of a weapon's impact on arms control before it is tested. But the Ford Administration made a mockery of the entire process. The statements' discussion of the impact of the cruise missile ran just two sentences; the B-1 bomber was given a short paragraph explaining that the number of bombers planned for procurement fit neatly under the ceilings negotiated at Vladivostok. The ACDA, under Warnke's predecessor Fred Ikle, politely acquiesced...