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...unveiling a bill was this week, but the White House will miss that one too. The result of this tardiness is that Clinton's opponents are scoring points in the nascent debate, while a growing number of Americans are left with the impression that the Administration cannot translate its grand vision into workable policy. It does not help that the Administration keeps making embarrassing revisions to its original health-care budget. Just last week, the White House was forced to acknowledge that its plan will be more expensive than anticipated -- by as much as $21 billion over five years. That...
...situation in which the Soviets cannot accommodate the U.S. even if they wanted to.'' The question of the hour--and of the coming months--is to what extent the Soviets might be willing to accommodate the U.S. in order to head off SDI. This possibility is sometimes called the ''grand compromise.'' Such a deal could accomplish what Reagan proclaimed as his goal when he sought to replace SALT with the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks during his first term. The Soviets would be required to cut back drastically on their ICBM warheads in a way that reduced or, better yet, eliminated...
...program is not a bargaining chip and should not be used as one. However, a research program that is driven by good science rather than high-pressure politics would not hold out false hopes for large-scale population defense; and yet it still could pave the way for a grand compromise by inducing the Soviets to agree to significant cuts in offensive weapons in return for reinforcing old agreements that limit the development of defensive systems. Indeed, the Soviets have recently begun exploring ways to restrict SDI by reaffirming the ABM treaty of 1972. That approach has considerable promise since...
...perhaps the television coup of the season. Live on the Phil Donahue show last Tuesday, a call was placed to Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids. Looking on were Donahue's guests for the day: the parents of a California infant known as Baby Jesse, who desperately needed a heart transplant. A spokeswoman for the hospital got on the line and was persuaded to reveal the impossibly good news: ''We are donating a heart to the baby,'' she declared. The cameras closed in on Jesse's stunned parents as they broke into cries of joy, smiles and tears. The audience went...
...contras by the U.S. last year never got to them. Of $3.3 million given to one broker for the contras, only $150,000 was actually sent to Central America. Most of the money went to American companies and individuals, and $380,000 was funneled into offshore bank accounts on Grand Cayman Island or in the Bahamas. Alluding to President Reagan's controversial comparison of the contras to America's founders, Democratic Congressman Gerry Studds quipped, ''Our Founding Fathers did not maintain bank accounts in the Cayman Islands.'' The GAO investigation also found that some $743,000 in contra aid went...