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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...ready to do that much," said a Democratic participant. Meanwhile, loyalty on the Republican side has broken down, especially on taxes. In recent weeks the Administration has floated several revenue proposals, probing gently for reaction to possible taxes on energy and stock transactions and limiting deductions for state and local taxes. But while the White House is expert at leaking, it has been unable to keep its troops in line and has therefore stopped short of formally offering its ideas...
...tension reached as far as the hills of Tennessee and farms of Wisconsin, where local Air National Guardsmen were hurriedly called from their civilian jobs to help ferry U.S. troops and gear the 5000 miles to Saudi Arabia...
...inviting target. The Democratic Leadership Council has concocted a "tax fairness index" showing that the wealthy have benefited most from tax changes of the '80s. Last week Mario Cuomo visited Washington to marshal opposition to a Republican attempt to raise federal revenue by limiting the deductibility of state and local income taxes. Raise rates on those making $200,000 and more, Cuomo demanded. "Don't come to us, and take it out of the pockets of children...
...Asia to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. In Armenia, nationalist forces clashed with Soviet troops deployed to prevent ethnic fights with neighboring Azerbaijanis, resulting in the deaths of two officers in the Soviet army, 30 soldiers from the Armenian side and three civilians. Several weeks ago, violent battles erupted between local militias and the army in the Central Asian republic of Kirghizia, where Soviet soldiers are trying to end fighting between ethnic Uzbeks and Kirghiz...
Last week President Mikhail Gorbachev finally ordered these local vigilante groups to disband, charging that they "encouraged irresponsibility" and "threatened human lives." He gave them 15 days to demobilize and hand over their weapons, and threatened to use force if they resisted...