Tax Skirmishing Between White House and Congress Deepens
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a $12.7 billion plan to extend 1975 personal property tax cuts into 1976, with an additional $2.6 billion cut next year. The vote split 21-16, mainly along party lines, and kept spending cuts out of the package while President Ford demands a spending ceiling. The clash signals a looming battle as lawmakers push for tax cuts without guaranteed spending reductions.
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Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Ford
al Ullman
D-Ore
Ullman
Mr. Ullman
Tax Writing Committee
The Trillion Dollar Debt Challenge and Call for Budget Reform
The piece explains the federal debt timeline toward one trillion dollars and notes the $600 billion mark by year end with $400 billion left. It criticizes deficits as a policy and advocates for a constitutional balanced-budget amendment, opposing deficit-driven stimulus. It urges discipline and rejects the notion that deficits are necessary for economic stimulation.
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Ford
Congress
Kissinger and the fragile art of personal diplomacy
James Reston surveys how personal diplomacy shapes world relations and its limits. He notes leaders like Mao, Franco, Faisal, Sadat, Ecevit, Tho, and Brezhnev aging or dying, while Kissinger’s influence illustrates both gains and risks of personal meetings in shaping peace and policy.
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Faisal
Saudi Arabia
Cyprus
Bulent Ecevit
Harvard
Ecevit
Egypt
Israel
Sadat
Busing Amendment Push Gains Ground in Congress
Congressional opponents of forced school busing press for a constitutional amendment to ban desegregation busing. Senate action and Ford meetings boost momentum as Steelman and Tower push for presidential backing while polls show heavy opposition to busing and broad support for an amendment.
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Congressional Quarterly
Washington
Congressional
Senate
House
Ford
Congress
Alan Steelman
Steelman
John G. Tower
Texas
Tower
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Joe Biden
Gallup
Brooke
Thomas F. Eagleton
Missouri
Gaylord Nelson
Wisconsin
Quentin N. Burdick
North Dakota
Nelson
Burdick
Humphrey Leads Dems in 1976 Nomination Poll
Gallup shows Sen. Hubert Humphrey at 23 percent as the top Democratic choice, followed by Gov. George Wallace at 19 percent. The survey, conducted Oct 3–6 with 680 Democrats, also notes Kennedy at 35 percent when included, and highlights rising name recognition for Sargent Shriver and Milton Shapp.
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Princeton
N.J
Hubert Humphrey
Humphrey
George Wallace
Wallace
Henry Jackson
George McGovern
Edmund Muskie
Democratic Party
Edward Kennedy
Sargent Shriver Oe
Birch Bayh
Lloyd Bentsen
Jimmy Carter
Fred Harris
Terry Sanford
Milton Shapp
Kennedy
Shriver
Shapp
Jackson Muskie
McGovern Shriver
Kennedy Wallace
McGovern
Muskie
Jackson Bayh Udall
Carter
Bentsen
Harris
Sanford
Balance in Danger in Lebanon Faces Religious Strife
Washington notes Lebanon's civil conflict has hardened along Moslem Christian lines threatening the 34 year old balance. Factions include Falangists and Palestinian Arab militants with Syria and the PLO involved. a decisive outcome could trigger wider Middle East intervention. Letter deadline for the Nov 4 election is Oct 30 noon.
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Lebanon
Christian Falange
Palestine Liberation Organization
Syria
Falange
Europe
Israel
Middle East
Syris
Assad
PLO
Yasser Arafat
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Moscow
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James B. Allen
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