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...wants a limit of 6,000 nuclear charges (i.e., warheads) atop submarine-and land-based ballistic missiles and air-launched cruise missiles. It wants to ban mobile missiles and new heavy land-based missiles...
...Order Louis Le Grange accused the foreign media of encouraging blacks to fake violent incidents in order to film them. Thus it came as little surprise to most of the 172 accredited foreign journalists in South Africa when on Nov. 2 the Botha government imposed new restrictions that sharply limit press access to often bloody clashes between police and black protesters...
...formula for budget cutting that has aroused concern even within the President's Cabinet, is attached to a bill to raise the national-debt ceiling to more than $2 trillion. Congress was faced with the threat of the Government going bankrupt in a matter of days unless the debt limit was increased. Failing once again to reach a compromise on Gramm-Rudman, the legislators granted the Government a one-month extension on its borrowing power. Upshot: by Dec. 12, Congress and the President will find themselves confronted with yet another deadline for U.S. financial default...
...cuts would not threaten national security. But geopolitical considerations were partly responsible for the postponement of a showdown. The lawmakers decided that sending Reagan to Geneva with a fiscal default hanging over his head would be unseemly. Before leaving, however, Reagan vetoed an appropriations bill that overshot its targeted limit by $180 million. "Until Congress comes to grips with the problem of the large budget deficit," said Reagan, "[the veto] is an instrument I shall not hesitate to employ." If last week was any indication, the President will be braced for a tough Round 4 on Gramm-Rudman in December...
...long run, China could become the most attractive market of all. Already Japan sends more goods to China[*] some $9 billion worth so far this year--than any other country except the U.S. "We see no limit to economic relations with China," said Japan's Yoshino. In addition, China is building trade with less developed Asian countries, buying rubber and pig iron, for example, from Malaysia...