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Sources: Office of Management and Budget; Congressional Budget Office; Social Security Administration; Center for Budget and Policy??Priorities
That is the concern of former Secretary of Defense (and more recently, of Energy) James Schlesinger. In an interview last week with TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, Schlesinger described the fall of the Shah last January and the rise of Khomeini as "a cataclysm for American foreign policy???the first serious revolution since 1917 in terms of world impact." Said Schlesinger: "It is plain that respect for the U.S. would be higher if we didn't just fumble around continuously and weren't half-apologetic about whatever we do. An image of weakness is going to elicit this kind...
...weeks Moscow blared complaints about American policy???particularly policy toward China?in public while emitting no positive signals through the back channel. American officials began to fear that the Kremlin might be fundamentally reassessing whether it wanted to conclude a SALT II treaty with the Carter Administration after all. Then, during the week of Feb. 26, Dobrynin delivered an encouraging message to Vance: the Kremlin would accept a 10% to 12% limit on the downsizing of ICBMs. Vance held out for 5%, but the Soviets were moving in the right direction. The Secretary of State took Dobrynin to see Carter...
...confidence vote came after Callaghan had lost two other votes in a debate on his anti-inflation policy???which galls the unions because it contains a lid on wages but not prices, and pains businessmen because it puts the burden on companies to enforce the wage standards. The first vote was on the issue of sanctions against companies that violate the 5% pay hike ceiling. Five left-wing Laborites deserted the government. As a result, Labor went down to a 285-279 defeat. That led to a vote on the government's entire pay policy, which Callaghan also lost...
...every sign of being a long-run affair and is a constant drain on national energies. On the other hand, the nature of the brutal Cambodian regime since 1975 is such that even Senator George McGovern?who campaigned for the presidency as a passionate foe of U.S. Viet Nam policy???suggested last week that armed international intervention might be necessary...