General deregulation of banks and other financial institutions could begin. Debates on defense will center on the size of the military budget. and more clashes on chemical weapons and the MX missile are likely. The breakdown of the nuclear arms control dialogue. the unchecked flow of illegal aliens across our borders. and the military aid being granted to repressive anticommunist forces in Central America (the latter is as controversial as ever despite the proaid tone of the Kissinger Commissions recent report) will round out the international relations agenda. The prospect of a meaningful advance on this formidable agenda is made even more remote by the sessions bad start. Irritability and intemperance have marked the first week.
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