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Noted the Justice Department in its recommendation for clemency: "It is the consensus of all those most familiar with this case that but for the extraordinary criminal and personal offenses that the petitioner suffered at the hands of the S.L.A. she would not have become a participant in the criminal acts ... and would have not suffered the punishment and other consequences she has endured." That raised the question of whether she should have been brought to trial in the first place...
Washington's basic hope is that a more or less tranquil transition period might encourage all political elements to build a new national consensus that could eventually lead to a stable government. Bakhtiar's decision late last week to deal directly with Khomeini suggested that more death and bloodshed could possibly be averted and that Iran might conceivably begin to dream of peace and unity...
...present draft health plan appears to be the consensus of the Carter administration. "This is the only option now before the president," sources said yesterday. However, the plan is not scheduled to begin until...
This was typical of a cautious reportorial consensus until everything began to give way; it was less "pro-Shah" than an attempt to assess presumed elements of strength in a fluid situation. Journalism was never guilty of the reckless effusiveness of Jimmy Carter's 1978 New Year's toast to the Shah's "island of stability." But it also resisted, says the Wall Street Journal's Bartley, those Iranian exiles who wanted the press to "report that the only trouble in Iran is the Shah, and if we only toppled him everything would be peachy...
More than two years later, space scientists are still analyzing the Viking data and pictures. There is no consensus yet on the possible presence of life. But the pictures themselves are masterworks of unearthly beauty. This week many will be unveiled for the first time, and the data thoroughly discussed, at the Second International Colloquium on Mars at the California Institute of Technology...