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When Governor Michael S. Dukakis tomorrow announces tax increases intended to prevent budget cuts in social programs, he will continue the agressively defensive tone initiated during the State of the State address last week...
Dukakis announced last week that he would not seek reelection in 1990, a move observers say will make it necessary for him to aggressively defend the policies of the last six years. The governor has decided that a tax increase is necessary to preserve his administration's social programs, State House sources...
While in last week's address Dukakis lambasted his fiscal critics as "gutless wonders" and denied that further spending cuts were needed to reduce the state's $636 million budget shortfall, he hinted that new taxes would soon be proposed...
...McCoys when it comes to the issue of sovereignty over the Falklands. But at least the two nations have agreed to abandon their antagonism and settle most of their remaining differences. After three days of talks in Madrid, Argentina announced last week that it was formally ending its state of hostility with Britain, seven years after London made a similar gesture...
Ever since a debate over whether to accept the credentials of Israel's U.N. delegation became an annual event in 1982, the Soviet Union has sided with Arab countries and voted against seating representatives of the Jewish state. Last week Moscow abstained on the matter. It was the latest sign of a warming trend between the two countries, which have had no diplomatic relations since the Six-Day War in 1967. Better weather seems to be on the way. Shimon Peres, Israel's Finance Minister and leader of the Labor Party, has tentatively accepted a Soviet invitation to visit Moscow...