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...agency's journalist-helpers as high as 400, most of his article summarizes charges already made by other investigators. Moreover, his disclosures deal primarily with the cold war days of the '50s and early '60s. "All these issues looked very different when there was a broad consensus in American society about who were the good guys and who were the bad guys," says Robert Kaiser, a veteran foreign correspondent for the Washington Post...
...this kind of mechanics, however, that Rosovsky will scrutinize before the core is implemented (if it is-people involved in the discussions invariably add that caveat; while the Faculty has reached a reasonable consensus on the need for stricter requirements, it reserves the right to change its collective mind when it sees the real thing). When Gen Ed was first set up in the 1940s, it was a pathbreaking step in liberal arts education, copied all over the country by other colleges. In the enthusiasm of the moment, Rosovsky says, the Faculty didn't worry about mechanics, and the program...
...lobbying effort will reach a high point this week when the treaty is signed at the Pan American Union building in Washington. On hand will be 15 heads of state from Latin America, the largest gathering of its kind in the hemisphere since 1967. Whether this televised inter-American consensus will prove effective is another matter. White House mail is running 8 to 1 against the treaty. Administration head counters claim that 58 Senators are already willing to vote in favor of the pact; only nine more would give Carter the two-thirds approval he needs, but they may prove...
...Change so that the Labor Party could back it without seeming to support Premier Menachem Begin's ruling Likud coalition. A similarly worded Likud resolution had earlier been defeated by the D.M.C. and Labor opposition. The political maneuvering, however, hardly obscured the fact that there is a solid consensus in Israel against any dealings with the P.L.O...
...attacking the basic problem of job creation, the first sound step is to recognize that the Government cannot and should not try to do it all. Given the public's dismay with inflation and high taxes, there is nothing close to the political consensus that would be needed to support liberal cries for massive job programs or a "Marshall Plan for the cities." Despite some successes, Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty is too well remembered as one in which benefits often trickled up to the so-called poverticians?the programmers, social workers and suppliers to the needy. Any massive...