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...Jean Weinburg, executive director of Massachusetts Organization for Repeal of Abortion Laws (MORAL) breathed a sigh of relief. Since the Supreme Court made that ruling, abortion has been a private decision--not a bid idea, since there are a number of moral considerations on the issue and no general consensus. Everyone is entitled to abortions; Medicaid funds have been used to pay for poor women to have this freedom of choice...
...deadlocked debate over the future of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, there is considerable merit in the arguments on both sides. Israelis have legitimate worries about security, while there is a growing world consensus that the Palestinians have a moral if not a juridical right to a homeland of their...
...Still, Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda now insists that the government's ambitious 7% growth goal for this year "appears within reach." At the same time, the rate of inflation has fallen from a 1974 high of 21% to a manageable 4%. Yet simultaneously, there is a slowly dawning consensus among Japanese leaders and businessmen that the good old days of whizbang, export-led growth are numbered. Indeed, go-for-broke Japan is now retrenching for a new era of go-slow growth, in which gross national product is expected to expand at about half of its former clip...
White House aides insisted that Carter's speech was more of a consensus than anything else. In the view of some, the address expressed Brzezinskian themes in Vancian tones. It was, in fact, Vance who encouraged Carter to talk about the Soviet Union at Annapolis. But before he left for a quiet weekend of preparation for the speech at Camp David, the President canvassed five top Administration foreign policy leaders for their views on the growing East-West tensions: Vance, Brzezinski, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and CIA Chief Stansfield Turner...
...Harvard corporation is also planning to assume control of the marketing division of real estate management. Under the current system, the Harvard Housing Office and commercial real estate brokers perform this function. The general consensus in the real estate department is that Harvard could to a better job on the buying and selling scene. "We've been saying for four years that we could be doing a better job," says Raymond T. Miller, manager of acquisitions and marketing. Miller adds that the Corporation will probably be able to straighten out some of the marketing problems, but he is not sure...