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...billion from the 1991 deficit and $500 billion over the next five years. If a deal is not reached by Oct. 1, the government could face $100 billion of across-the-board budget cuts. While lawmakers contemplated legislation to avert that sweeping move, the White House threatened to veto such a measure in order to force a resolution of the budget deadlock. Said President Bush at week's end: "We're down to the wire...
Under the pending resolution, the President would gain authority to issue orders on everything from wage hikes to property ownership. Though his pronouncements would be subject to a veto by the 542-member parliament, that body is so indecisive that Gorbachev would have plenty of leeway...
...forces in the gulf, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, firmly denies he has "any disagreement whatsoever with any agreement" between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. "Storm-in' Norman," as some of his detractors call him, dismisses published reports that he complained to the Pentagon about a Saudi request for veto power over future American action. He adds, "I participated in the formulation of the agreement...
...Arabia has indeed gone smoothly so far, but its vagueness is causing some uneasiness on Capitol Hill. "There are a number of loose ends to be tied up," says Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Senator Sam Nunn says flatly, "We cannot give the Saudis a veto on operations...
Brazil's fractious Congress has moved quickly to capitalize on the slippage in public enthusiasm. In July it approved an inflationary wage-indexation program that calls for monthly upward adjustments of salaries. The President, whose tiny National Reconstruction Party has only a handful of congressional seats, has vowed to veto the bill, a move certain to be unpopular. To avoid a backlash at the polls two months from now in congressional elections, the government will offer low-income workers a onetime wage bonus. Following through on the rest of his program will depend heavily on the returns from those elections...