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...increase federal spending on unemployment compensation, food stamps and other social programs. While the White House officially maintains that the 1980 deficit will be about $30 billion, some of TIME'S economists expect it to approach $50 billion. The problem will continue into fiscal 1981, which begins next October. Says Joseph Pechman of the Brookings Institution: "It is a very dismal budget outlook, and there is going to be a real fight. I don't think Carter can get spending much below $610 billion and, even at that, he has got to be tight on everything...
...weeks of painstaking negotiations at the stately Lancaster House in London, the accord carried with it the Front's previous acceptance of a majority-rule constitution and parliamentary elections. It thus appeared to pave the way for the peaceful creation of an independent republic of Zimbabwe by early next spring, as the British plan envisages. More immediately, it called for all combatants to lay down their arms within two weeks and for thousands of exiled guerrillas to return to Rhodesia, outlaws no longer. Declared a smiling Nkomo with some emotion: "We are going home." For all the hopeful statements...
...countries in the area where liquor is sold-has, in deference to Muslim tradition, just opened an interest-free Islamic bank and banned male hairdressers from attending to women. The Amir of Kuwait has promised that his country's national assembly, "suspended" since 1976, will be reopened next year...
...American era. Yet Taiwan has demonstrated a robust self-reliance during the past year, and its relationship with Washington has changed far more in form than in substance. Though the formal U.S. presence is gone and its last legal vestige, the Mutual Defense Treaty, is due to expire next week, other links are thicker than ever. "Both sides," says an American resident in Taiwan, "are playing the new game to the hilt...
...White House that afternoon to meet with himself, Brzezinski, White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler and Jerrold Schecter, Brzezinski's press secretary, to get the facts. On Powell's summons, Post Style Section Editor Shelby Coffey arrived with a lawyer. The paper printed its retraction the next day. (Many of the characterizations in Quinn's series are true. Though known as an exemplary husband and father, Brzezinski is notoriously vain and flirtatious...