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...first big congressional showdown should come just before the August recess when three legislative issues may be resolved: an increase in the federal debt limit, the reconciliation of the authorizing bills with the budget committee's guidelines, and the need to redress problems in the Gramm- Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget law. The Democrats will be at a particular disadvantage when they begin earmarking their tax increases: proposals for excise taxes on cigarettes, liquor or gasoline are sure to outrage various constituencies. Says South Carolina Senator Fritz Hollings: "I don't know how ^ we're going to get the Democrats together...
...nearly 40 years, standard military wisdom in the West has held that Warsaw Pact armies so outnumber and outgun NATO that only nuclear arms could redress the balance. This conventional forces "gap" has legitimized NATO's reliance on nuclear weapons, which in turn has allowed the alliance to hold down its spending on nonnuclear forces. Now, however, with NATO's nuclear inventory likely to shrink, fears are surfacing that decades of nuclear dependence may have left the alliance with insufficient conventional clout to keep the peace...
...East Berlin talks even got under way, however, Soviet officials moved to dampen expectations. Troop reductions, said a Soviet spokesman, would have to be on the basis of "mutual agreement." Still, the final communique reflected an awareness of Western concerns by stating that the pact stood prepared to redress the "imbalance that has arisen in certain elements." Mainly, however, the conference served the purposes Gorbachev had intended: to encourage policy discussion, in the spirit of reform, and to exert discipline over the Warsaw Pact, in the spirit of tradition...
Shultz went to Moscow last week to argue that an agreement on intermediate- range (600 miles to 3,400 miles) missiles must do something to redress the disparity in shorter-range launchers, those with a range of 300 miles to 600 miles. The U.S. proposal: freeze the number of Soviet missiles and let the U.S. install an equal amount in Europe...
Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt gave a landmark speech in London ten years ago, raising the alarm over the SS-20 and calling on the U.S. to redress the imbalance. American officials and experts were at first reluctant, in part because they feared that whatever Schmidt wanted, many in West Germany and elsewhere would protest the deployments and blame the U.S. for escalating the arms race...