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Also, the papers explain, the parties now disagree about what to do with the surplus--Clinton wants to reserve it for dealing with the coming Social Security crunch, although he wants to use some of it for keeping U.S. troops in Bosnia and to solve the Y2K problem, while the Republicans are against that spending, but want to allocate at least some of the surplus to tax relief.
The Wall Street Journal explains that the rally shows that Japan's credit crunch is the number one issue with its investors.
It is largely perceived by the papers as a sign of distress in the Gore campaign, which the NYT calls "lagging" and the Post calls "troubled"--references to a fund crunch and Bill Bradley's much improved polls.
A front-page NYT effort illustrates the military's current personnel crunch via the situation aboard the Navy's newest ship, the $4.
4. Credit crunch.