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...foundering tanker spews oil off the Texas coast while Congress dithers over a bill to create rapid-response cleanup teams. Even the President admits the need for a budget-and-tax compromise, but a heralded bipartisan summit has so far failed to produce even an agreement on how large the federal deficit really is. Flagrant political scandals -- most notably, craven sellouts by lawmakers to the savings and loan industry -- raise new calls for campaign reforms, but the effort is going nowhere. The decline of the nation's schools produces gusts of rhetoric but not one serious education reform...
...weak," in the words of Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Aspin predicts "potential problems" for both the chemical-weapons treaty signed at the summit and an eventual pact to reduce strategic nuclear warheads. But the biggest trouble at the moment is a bipartisan rebellion against a trade agreement that would grant Moscow most-favored-nation trade status (which actually means access to American markets on terms equal to those enjoyed by most other countries...
...Washington the sense of urgency is less impressive. Last week the bipartisan budget summit involving congressional negotiators and White House aides resumed just two days after the California vote. But the summiteers are far from reaching an agreement on a mix of spending cuts and new revenues that will hold the 1991 deficit to the $64 billion mandated by the Gramm-Rudman- Hollings law. They are even talking of putting off a budget agreement -- and the announcement of new "revenue enhancements" that it might entail -- until a lame-duck session of Congress begins, conveniently, after the November elections. "The tough...
...Join hands and jump off the cliff together. So goes Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson's scenario for a bipartisan federal deficit reduction. The tactic . proved its worth in California. Proposition 111 had the support of the gubernatorial candidates of both parties and more than 250 business, labor and social-service groups that spanned the political spectrum. Bipartisan support reduces a politician's vulnerability to attack by opponents as a tax-happy spender. In Washington Democrats insist they need that cover from Republicans -- but Republicans fear they would be exposed to primary challenges from even more conservative candidates back home...
...Democrat who wrote speeches for Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter, Aronson was also author of Ronald Reagan's 1986 address that rescued a $100 million aid appropriation for the contras by calling for a purge of their Somocista leadership. "Bernie was pushing for a bipartisan Central America policy long before it became fashionable," says Secretary of State James Baker...