Word: prospectively
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Weinberger said little until his plane reached the Jordanian capital of Amman. But then he declared that he "favors" the sale of U.S. mobile Hawk antiaircraft missiles and F-16 fighters to Jordan. The Israelis were aghast at the prospect of these weapons in the hands of an unfriendly state that has rejected all overtures to join the Camp David peace process. Haig, returning to the U.S. from a trip to Portugal, Spain, Morocco, and Rumania, just as Weinberger was getting back from Amman, hastened to assert that "there was no specific request [from Jordan for U.S. arms], no offer...
...Suggest something and we'll take a look at it." So said Ronald Reagan at his press conference last week, in what seemed a conciliatory, almost inviting gesture. For members of Congress traumatized by the prospect of enacting the President's fiscal 1983 budget, which projects a $91.5 billion deficit despite more politically painful spending cuts, Reagan's coy hint of compromise was in welcome contrast to his previous "put up or shut up" attitude toward critics. Nonetheless, the President insisted, there should be no tampering with his plan to add $34 billion to defense spending...
...budget-conscious Congressmen alarmed by the prospect of $100 billion deficits, the burgeoning Pentagon budget seems to be the obvious place to attack. In such a $258 billion behemoth, how could there fail to be fat by the ton? The fiscal 1983 Defense Department requests are up 13.2%, after inflation, from the current year, and the five-year forecast calls for spending a total of $1.6 trillion, an amount that Ronald Reagan might try to make comprehensible by describing a stack of dollar bills 107,000 miles high. Reflecting on these towering sums, New York Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
...Nebraska Governor Charles Thone, whose wife is a panhandle native, the secessionist prospect, however farfetched, is troubling. For one thing, says he: "I'd hate to be married to a foreigner...
...Phase two deals with the security of the region. It will be difficult, make no mistake. The issues are more visible, more emotional from the point of view of all the parties involved. This government is not prepared to go for an internationally acceptable solution if it holds no prospect for peace. Anti-SWAPO parties in the territory argue that U.N. supervisors are SWAPO people, so SWAPO cannot lose an election. Either they win and it's finished, or they lose and the U.N. refuses to issue a certificate that it was a free and fair election. So both...