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...come this far by saying whatever is on his mind. He bills himself as the ultimate political outsider at a time when insiders are as popular as cockroaches. The state is in a fiscal mess because of people like Bellotti and Murphy, he argues, and it needs him to slash about $1 billion in fat, reform the education system, create prison schools at abandoned military bases and add 12 cents per gal. to the state gasoline tax to trigger new jobs through business activity and tourism...
...difficulties. After wrestling for two days with intractable problems, the two Presidents simply set their differences aside and exchanged signatures on a variety of halfway measures. When their negotiators got hung up once again on the details of arms reduction, Bush and Gorbachev instead signed a joint statement to slash the numbers of strategic nuclear warheads, and they inked formal pacts to eliminate most of their arsenals of chemical arms and to verify limits on nuclear testing. Those, however, were old, well-worn issues; progress came harder on the newer, post-cold war problems. When they could find no common...
Dinkins has been hampered by an economic decline aggravated by massive layoffs on Wall Street. To balance the city budget, he must raise $850 million from higher taxes and slash services by $303 million. That will mean backing away from campaign promises to put a cop on every subway train and provide housing for the homeless. Managing cutbacks would be difficult under any circumstances, but Dinkins has filled many of the top posts in his administration with outsiders, such as Police Commissioner Lee Brown (recruited from Houston) and Health Commissioner Woodrow Myers (from Indianapolis), who have no experience...
...Pentagon, defense specialist Richard Halloran argues that the best way to eliminate the glut of low-intensity forces would be to meld the Marines into the Army. Although many experts agree with Halloran, any move in that direction would encounter huge political land mines. Harry Truman once tried to slash the Marines on the grounds that the Navy did not need its own army, but he was beaten by what he described as a Leatherneck "propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's." Aside from the clout of ten Senators and 21 Representatives in the current Congress who served...
While the Supreme Judicial Court ruled on Monday that Dukakis had no authority to slash $210 million in local aid from the state budget last year, it offered no remedy for the situation, leaving some municipal officials unsure how much money was likely to be restored to their governments...