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...order to return to office. If it's spending the President wants to cut, it will have to be in defense or even more sensitive domestic categories, like Medicaid and social security, the areas he has pledged to leave untouched. And if he wants to continue his arms build-up (which we hope Congress can persuade him to modify anyway) somehow he has to find additional sources of revenue to finance...
...values and commitment to education that they embody. Taken together, the cuts would save only $2.3 billion out of a projected deficit of nearly $200 billion. The Reagan administration claims that the cuts are an economic necessity, but this argument lacks credibility when combined with a continuing military build-up and a refusal to raise taxes. The cuts in financial aid would undermine both the intellectual ability and the economic productivity of America over the long run, while saving what amounts to peanuts...
...relatively mild winter may well not be cause for celebration or, given this week's temperatures, nostalgia. Many scientists are now claiming that the consequences of the long-predicted "Greenhouse effect"--the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from air pollution causing temperature increases--are finally being felt. They assert that it is more than coincidence that the greatest temperature rises in the past few years have occurred Boston, New York and Los Angeles--cities with the most severe pollution problems...
...guard by the immediacy of the greenhouse effect because the long-held view that increasing carbon-dioxide levels could be predicted by looking at pollution levels has been shattered. Scientists have discovered that there are innumerable factors that cause a given amount of pollution to cause a greater build-up of carbon dioxide. Deforestation and the decreasing ability of ocean sediments to absorb carbon dioxide ,for example, has severely disrupted the carbon cycle--the process by which terrestrial life absorbs and breaks down carbon compounds and emits pure carbon into the atmosphere. Climatologists assert that the unexpectedly high atmospheric carbon...
Which is not to absolve the Reagan Administration of blame for its escalation of the military build-up, which has distorted the economy and brought no appreciable increase in security in today's nuke-dominated world. The words unclear superiority simply have no meaning in international affairs any more, and the failure to yet understand this is perhaps the most disturbing feature of Reagan's bankrupt security policy. There is no clear way to arms control, especially if there is no clear will...