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...midweek the Democrats had agreed on $11 billion in potential budget cuts, and there they got stuck. Liberals began arguing for tax increases-a surcharge on corporate profits, for example-to make up the remainder of the budget gap, but they were overruled. Byrd argued implacably that defense spending should be held to the 3% increase, adjusted for inflation, that would meet commitments to NATO. He won his point, but only over the strenuous objections of congressional hawks...
Long and loudly as Republicans have proclaimed the necessity for a balanced mdget, the Administration already has ost its perhaps disingenuous hope for a bipartisan economic policy. A dozen Republican Senators turned out for a midweek press conference, at which they insisted that the budget must be balanced entirely through reductions in spending, with no revenue-raising measures. They want spending cuts much deeper than any that Carter will propose. Senator William Roth of Delaware has collected 46 signatures-including those of nine Democrats-on a resolution to limit federal spending to 21% of the gross national product (the dollar...
Despite the impasse, talks will resume this week in Herzlia, a seaside suburb of Tel Aviv. At midweek the regular negotiators will be joined by Sol Linowitz, President Carter's special envoy to the Middle East. Linowitz is also scheduled to see Sadat, Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi leaders during the course of the trip. The Israelis have been nervous about rumors that the Carter Administration is determined to accelerate the pace of the autonomy talks and reach an agreement that would be acceptable to the Palestinians, Jordanians and Saudis. "Israel is ready to pay a price...
...over. According to medical bulletins from the clinic at Ljubljana, Yugoslavia's durable President Josip Broz Tito, 87, was "successfully recovering" from the operation early last week in which a team of surgeons had amputated his left leg. His general condition, first reported as good, had progressed by midweek to improving. A photograph released a few days after the operation showed Tito, who has ruled his country uninterruptedly since 1945, sitting in a wheelchair, smiling broadly at his two sons. Because of his age, the critical postoperative period could last for several weeks. But the official Tanjug news agency...
...midweek, Carter decided to speak directly to the American people by holding his first news conference since the Tehran embassy was seized. Because the 30-min. appearance before reporters and TV cameras in the East Room was a calculated risk, he prepared himself with special care. He spent a whole afternoon reviewing the fine points of U.S. policy on Iran with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Secretary of State Vance and fielding practice questions?about 25 in all ? thrown at him by aides. Former Imagemaker Jerry Rafshoon rehearsed Carter on the brief speech that would open the news...