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Fights will doubtless occur over which parts of the budget to trim. Probably the biggest clash will be on defense spending, which Carter wants to boost by 3% in real dollars. Exercising more influence in the Budget Committee than in the House as a whole, advocates of increased social spending may be able to prevent the hike in military spending. Says David Obey, a liberal Democrat from Wisconsin: "I am not going to tell old people that they have to bear a double load because our NATO allies need more money for defense...
...Pick Like a Nashville Picker Picks and No One Can Kick Like a Nashville Kicker Kicks. "I'm going crackers with that picks and kicks thing," grumbled Burnett. Nevertheless, she thinks she and the queen of country music make a perfect pair. Deadpans Burnett: "I trim my eyelashes and bind myself every morning so that people can tell us apart...
...sessions. Left behind at home were Cabinet ministers because, as one French official explained, "they always show up with all of their files." Although there were the usual legions of security personnel and communications experts to keep the leaders linked to their capitals, the official entourages were pretty trim compared with those of previous summits. Carter, for example, brought along only National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, White House Aide Hamilton Jordan, Press Secretary Jody Powell and a few other Administration staffers...
...tilting toward the U.S.S.R. To demonstrate that he wants to counter Moscow's military buildup, the President has become a forceful advocate of bigger Pentagon budgets. This is a sharp reversal from his position during the 1976 election campaign when he created the impression that he wanted to trim defense spending by $5 billion. For fiscal 1980, Carter is pushing for almost $123 billion in defense outlays, a $10 billion increase. After discounting for inflation, this is a boost of 3%, a rate of increase endorsed by the President and other NATO leaders at their Washington summit last...
...much more modest achievement than the sharp reductions that the Carter Administration had sought in March 1977. In fact, because the U.S. now deploys about 2,150 strategic systems, the Pentagon actually would be able to add weapons under SALT II. While the Kremlin would have to trim its strategic arsenal by about 300 to get under the ban, it would be able to do some of this by dismantling aging bombers and rockets...