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ABORTION IS NO LONGER A "CATHOLIC ISSUE" IN THE U.S. -- if it ever was. Last September the biggest Lutheran body adopted a moderate pro-life policy. Two months ago, the Southern Baptist Convention filed its first joint Supreme Court brief alongside Catholics, urging abolition of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. The United Methodist Church almost pulled out of a pro-choice lobby it helped establish...
...entitlements are expected to cost more than $700 billion, about half the annual federal budget and 14% of the GDP. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that $51.5 billion could be saved over five years by merely eliminating Social Security cost-of-living increases for one year. Similarly, Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that $26.8 billion could be saved over five years by taxing 50% of Medicare benefits for individuals whose income exceeds $25,000 a year...
...still very much alive, and many economists believe that raising taxes in a recession would slow the recovery and thus cause a net reduction in federal revenue. Still, higher taxation, along with reductions in entitlements, is where the most significant progress on reducing the deficit can be made. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that changing the marginal income tax rates from 15%, 28% and 31% to 16%, 30% and 33% would increase revenue by $18.3 billion in 1993 and by more than $169 billion over five years. The committee also estimates that a 12 cents additional tax on gasoline...
...with the fate of the Uruguay Round still up in the air, there are already signs of creeping regionalization in its more exclusive, divisive and competitive form. France and Germany, the dominant powers on the Continent and the principal culprits in the E.C.'s agricultural protectionism, have formed a joint army corps that is clearly intended as a hedge against the day when the U.S. pulls its forces out of Europe...
...been pressuring both sides to come to terms peacefully. Russian President Boris Yeltsin recently took a step in that direction, announcing that Moscow had dropped its insistence that the 380-ship Black Sea Fleet, based in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, was a "strategic force" that should fall under joint Commonwealth command...