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Congress will soon get another chance. The Administration's budget for fiscal 1981 (to take effect Oct. 1,1980) will be submitted to Congress late this month. Still being assembled last week, the budget is expected to total about $617 billion, up $74 billion from fiscal 1980. And while Carter had vowed during the 1976 campaign that he would present a balanced budget by 1980, the White House predicts a deficit of about $ 15 billion, roughly half of the anticipated 1980 shortfall...
...austerity suits Congress fine. Says Robert Giaimo, chairman of the House Committee on the Budget: "It's an election year and we all hear the national cry out there to keep spending down. I think Congress is even less in the mood for new spending than it was last year, when support was almost...
...tight spending are off. Speaker O'Neill, an old-line liberal, plans to press for tax cuts and whatever it would take to stimulate the economy. Says he: "We're ready to go with programs if recession hits." Even Giaimo admits the Carter budget would not last under recession battle conditions. "If the economy were to go to hell," says Giaimo, "the whole thing would be a new ball game...
...most brutal blow from the Soviet Union's steel fist since the Red Army's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. In a lightning series of events last week, Afghanistan's President Hafizullah Amin was overthrown, and subsequently executed, in a ruthless coup mounted by the Soviet Union and carried out with the firepower of Soviet combat troops. In Amin's place, Moscow installed Babrak Karmal, a former Deputy Prime Minister long considered to be a Soviet protégé, but not before Russian troops were forced to fight a sporadic series of gun battles...
...Thursday the real motive of the intervention was clear: Radio Kabul suddenly announced that President Amin, a tough, repressive Communist who had seized power only last September from former President Noor Mohammed Taraki, had been deposed. The new President, the broadcast said, was former Deputy Prime Minister Karmal. A later announcement specified that Amin had been convicted of "crimes against the people" and executed, along with members of his family. Radio Kabul failed to mention that in the upheaval, Soviet military units had entered combat for the first time since their border clashes against China...