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...violence-some 5.4 million Portuguese went to the polls calmly, as if benumbed, to cast ballots in the nation's first free parliamentary elections in half a century. As they did a year ago, in elections for a Constituent Assembly, the returns suggested that if there was a consensus of any kind among Portugal's fractious electorate, it was against extreme politics of all shades...
...appointments have stirred up new speculation about whether Paul's eventual successor might be non-Italian. Jan Cardinal Willebrands, 66, primate of the Dutch church, is, by Vatican consensus, the leading non-Italian papabile. He has gained a potential backer with the appointment of Aloisio Lorscheider, the influential president of the Brazilian hierarchy and fellow specialist in ecumenism. One of the new cardinals might later become papabile himself: England's Basil Hume (TIME, March 1), 53, who has undergone a breathtaking rise from Benedictine abbot to Archbishop of Westminster to cardinal in less than three months' time...
...member suggested the committee first ask the universities, businesses and residents exactly what they want along their section of the river and then have the committee make zoning and land use regulations to accomodate a public consensus...
...will have an average of something under 7%-a 3-to-1 difference. This makes it difficult for Italy to stay in the same community unless we can do something about it -pass an austerity program. But it's difficult to get an austerity program without a national consensus, and we can't get a national consensus unless we have the parties of the left tied one way or the other with the government, backing the government or in some program close to the government...
That might seem to be an odd thing to say about a Kentucky Derby. But until a few days ago, it was the strong consensus among both those who know the turf and those who merely know the betting windows that a splendid colt named Honest Pleasure was as sure a thing at Churchill Downs this Saturday as the weak mint julep...