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Policy. Caspar ("Cap the Knife") Weinberger, head of Reagan's budget policy group, said the new boss would hold federal spending in fiscal 1981, which began Oct. 1, to $620 billion, about $25 billion below the levels contemplated by Carter. Reagan's advisers accepted a proposal by Texas Senator John Tower to add $3 billion to the $157 billion in military spending recommended by Carter this fiscal year. Military pay would be raised an extra 2%, on top of the 11.7% increase already moving toward enactment. Tower also advocated an increase in military outlays of 10% a year...
...picked, the party will still be left with the critical task of recasting its philosophy to suit the times. Last week flamboyant New York Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan charged that the party had run out of ideas and was spouting only tired doctrine. Moynihan warned that a group of "extreme left-wing supporters" of Kennedy might impose their ideology on the party, and he contended that they believed "Government should be powerful, and America should be weak." Ronald Reagan could not have said it better...
Meanwhile, an unlikely group is attempting to help the Democrats reformulate their ideology. Emboldened by its success in helping defeat four Democratic liberal Senators this year, the National Conservative Political Action Committee announced last week that it has tentatively marked 20 more Senators, including 17 Democrats, for defeat in 1982. N.C.P.A.C.Chairman Terry Dolan admitted that by announcing the list-which includes Kennedy and Moynihan-so early, the organization hoped to nudge at least some of the legislators away from progressive positions. Warned Dolan: "Liberals ought to be very intimidated by the mood of the American public...
...latest episode ended last week in another triumph for the workers. At issue was the charter of Solidarity, the umbrella group representing some 50 Polish labor unions and 10 million workers. A lower court had inserted a provision into the charter recognizing the "leading role" of the Communist Party. Claiming that its independence had been compromised, Solidarity threatened a series of strikes unless the authorities agreed to put the supremacy clause in an annex. In the predawn hours last Monday, government negotiators finally caved in to their Solidarity counterparts; later that day, the supreme court overturned the lower court...
...Congress government, she smoothed over differences with Sheik Abdullah, the aging Lion of Kashmir, and blamed communal tensions on hard-line Muslim and Hindu factions. To demonstrate her government's concern over the strife, Mrs. Gandhi last week reconvened the National Integration Council, a non-sectarian group that includes leaders with different religious and political affiliations...