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...April, after close consultation with key Congressmen, the Scowcroft commission issued a report recommending that the MX proceed as a short-term, stopgap measure, but that Midgetman be the principal ICBM of the future. The report recommended that the Administration, in order to make room for numerous Midgetman missiles, lift the 850-launcher ceiling that had been incorporated into the original START proposal at the behest of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The report questioned the Administration's longstanding but widely contested claim that American ICBMs were already vulnerable to pre-emptive attack from the more numerous Soviet ICBMs...
...situation in Argentina. Six weeks ago, the IMF and the U.S. Treasury paved the way for a $400 million loan package from Latin American countries and international banks that enabled Argentina to meet a deadline for paying overdue interest on its $44 billion debt. But that was only a stopgap measure. At a meeting last week in Buenos Aires, IMF staffers and Argentine officials began working on a plan to get the country's finances in order. Argentina's 320 bank creditors have said they will not again reschedule Argentina's debts unless an agreement is reached...
...Indian newspaper, is understandably ambivalent about the cinder-block-and-tin palaces springing up on reservations. "We've got to find a means to survive," he says, "but I don't see our young people making any great strides working in casinos. This is O.K. as a stopgap, but why should we have to resort to this...
...until Saturday did Congress finally pass a stopgap spending bill, known as a continuing resolution, to keep the Government functioning. Although the 1984 fiscal year began Oct. 1, five of the 13 annual appropriations bills have been stalemated on Capitol Hill. Another important measure, which would raise the legal debt ceiling and allow the Treasury to borrow the money it needs, was still stalled in the Senate. And Congress, it seems, will not be able to whittle a thin dune from the 1983 deficit of $195 billion by the time it adjourns this weekend...
Once again, Congress has lagged so badly on passing actual appropriations bills, even for defense, that it will have to pass a "continuing resolution" to fund major portions of the Government in the new fiscal year. Almost certainly, such a stopgap measure would provide for spending higher than Reagan wants. That, in turn, would set the stage for a dismal charade: first a presidential veto, threatening theoretically to put the Government out of business, then anguished negotiations, and finally a compromise maintaining spending at levels a bit higher than currently scheduled. What makes these prospects especially depressing is that there...