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...Sinkiang. The London Sunday Express reported that Peking has ordered 5 million more troops to reinforce border divisions. There are reports that the Russians have built a complex of sites for medium-range missiles near the border, thus threatening Manchuria and the nuclear-testing grounds in Sinkiang's Lop...
...prospect is that despite such amputations, Congress will eventually reduce the President's original $186.1 billion budget request by only about $3 billion. Then the Administration will presumably attempt to lop off more. But the war, along with interest on the national debt and other exigencies of the nation's housekeeping, will make further substantial reductions almost prohibitively difficult...
...cutback in expenditures - and bolster sagging international confidence in the dollar. During the second quar ter of 1968, the U.S. economy is expected to equal the first quarter's $20 billion leap forward in gross national product. With no rein on the economy, Johnson reasoned, inflation could lop 40 off every dollar's purchasing power during the year and help price U.S. exports out of world markets; tight money induced by Government borrowing to meet current bills could squeeze interest rates up to 10%, provoke a slump in new housing, and snap the string of 87 months...
...failed despite a low piece of political double-dealing earlier in the day that would further catch the liberals off guard. Dirksen's son-in-law, Howard W. Baker (R-Tenn.), slipped in an amendment which would lop off 29 million more units from the anti-discrimination law. Dirksen termed the amendment "technical changes," and later, trying to explain himself to the liberals, he said that "some provisions crept into the bill which I was not aware...
...Pearlstein details every sagging muscle and bulging abdomen, but the artist does it because he is fascinated with the way the folds and hollows flow into abstract compositions. "I'm not painting people," he maintains, and to emphasize this, lets the edge of his large-scale canvas lop off hands, heads or feet. "I'm dealing with what you see, how you see and how you depict what you see. The more you stare at something, the more it fills your whole field of vision...