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...plan generally would be more favorable to business than the Democratic proposal, it would be a shade more beneficial to the poor, exempting a family of four earning less than $14,375 from paying any tax. Both plans would protect Individual Retirement Accounts from taxation until the funds were withdrawn. But while Kemp-Kasten would provide for the indexing of its exemptions and deductions to inflation, Bradley-Gephardt would not. Sponsors of both plans say there would be no net gain in revenue for the Government nor any redistribution of the tax burden among income groups...
...most significant development was a growing sense in Israel that its forces must be withdrawn from Lebanon quickly. After its first formal Cabinet debate on the issue, Peres' Unity government last week declared that Israel was committed to getting out of southern Lebanon as soon as possible. The Cabinet did not set a date, but instead endorsed a two-part withdrawal strategy involving negotiations with the so far intransigent Syrians and with the Lebanese military on security arrangements for the area...
...constitutional change. Any infringement on the sovereignty of the North is immediately denounced by the Unionists, whose consent is essential for any "rolling" solution to have a chance of success. Any concession by Nationalists can be immediately declared by any political rival as a sell-out, and forcibly withdrawn. But, you will reply, we must not stop trying: it can't do any harm...
Shamir seemed on firmer footing when he let it be known last week that Jerusalem had dropped the key demand that Syria withdraw its troops from Lebanon at the same time as Israel. "As a matter of principle, we believe that all foreign forces should be withdrawn," Shamir said. "But the question of how and when and under what circumstances-that is to be negotiated." There is a powerful reason for Israel's growing flexibility: last week two more Israeli soldiers were killed and ten wounded by unknown assailants in surprise attacks. "We have only two desires," says...
...fact, the Marines were withdrawn long before the embassy had been made secure. Officials knew that shatter-resistant windows, reinforced blast walls, earthen berms, and even simple gates were crucial to containing terrorist attacks. But they allowed the embassy personnel to move in before protective devices had been completely installed. Only a few easily negotiated concrete barriers stood between the killer-car and the embassy...