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...Democratic running mates were almost unable to focus attention on the many issues they want to employ against Reagan in their long-shot battle to wipe out the President's commanding lead in popular support. The furor sublimated Mondale's long-awaited unveiling of his plan to slash the huge federal deficit by two-thirds within four years (see following story). The only hope for the Democrats in the reli gious controversy was that a backlash might grow against the intrusion of the bishops, as well as Protestant Fundamentalists, into partisan politics...
...year from many corporations and all families earning more than $25,000 a year. He also outlined plans, regrettably much less specific and based on some rather iffy assumptions, to reduce federal spending in fiscal 1989 by $105 billion below the total now expected. His goal is to slash the federal deficit in fiscal 1989 to $86 billion, roughly a third of what the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office now projects...
...manufacturers work both sides of the line to slash costs...
...Mondale said, "is haywire and completely off. He has some hocus-pocus numbers there." In fact, until Mondale explains exactly where he would cut programs and raise taxes, the average family's prospective share is uncertain. However, a $1,500-per-household increase would by itself slash the 1984 deficit by $125 billion, or two-thirds...
...Ugandan government responded that all the talk of human rights abuses was "highly distorted." It announced the suspension of a $100,000 program to train Ugandan officers in the U.S. and barred an American military attache from entering the country. Congress, meanwhile, took steps to slash $7 million from $9 million in aid to Uganda...