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...wants, the republics are negotiating with one another and forming loose groupings of their own. The Russians have already signed cooperation agreements with eight republics and plan to conclude negotiations with the remaining six by the end of the month. The five Central Asian republics have signed a similar pact setting up an economic federation...
...portray their Republican colleagues as lackeys of the well-to-do. These Democrats rammed through a plan that did not include any increase in the tax on gasoline but did retain regressive levies on alcoholic beverages and cigarettes. They proposed a smaller increase in Medicare premiums than the defeated pact would have. Most important, the House Democrats would have taken a whack at the rich by hiking the marginal tax rate for couples earning more than $78,400 to 33% from 28%, with an extra 10% surtax on earnings above $1 million. "What we're doing is getting our house...
...floor of the House. In contrast, the ill-fated bipartisan proposal was a themeless pudding of a budget. Its guiding philosophy was a cynical renunciation of the long-standing principles of both parties. Much of the criticism leveled against the congressional backbenchers who rebelled against the pact claimed they were motivated by partisan excess. But it can be argued that the authors of the plan were not partisan enough. The White House abandoned the traditional Republican hostility to funding ineffective domestic spending programs. The Democratic leadership surrendered the fairness issue in taxation, socking it to Joe Sixpack's beer bill...
...pact, which will make a surprise attack by either camp virtually impossible, limits NATO and the Warsaw Pact to a total of 20,000 tanks, 30,000 armored combat vehicles and 20,000 artillery pieces on each side in the area stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains. While the totals for each of the alliances are the same, the effect is immensely lopsided. To come down to those ceilings, NATO will have to destroy 2,900 tanks, for example, and no artillery. The Warsaw Pact, however, must scrap nearly 23,000 tanks and 26,900 artillery pieces...
Where CSCE might go from there is a matter of intense debate in foreign ministries and think tanks. Last April Czechoslovakia's President Vaclav Havel was among the first to propose that it become the core of a new all-European security organization replacing NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Moscow found the idea appealing because CSCE is the only organization that links Eastern and Western Europe -- and the U.S.S.R. belongs to it. German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher has been pushing a strengthened CSCE for a similar purpose: to keep the Soviets from feeling isolated and resentful...