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...With Watergate behind us," says Senior Editor George J. Church, "there's a new consensus that the economy is the big story." In recent months, Church's section, Economy and Business, has kept on top of the nation's wrenching downturn with major reports on the Administration's economic summits, President Ford's policies, and the angry militancy of miners and other organized workers. This week, as Americans hunker down into a recession Christmas, TIME'S cover story examines the likely depth and duration of the slump and its effects on people...
Those comments on the preliminary SALT II agreement reached in Vladivostok between Ford and Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev apparently were the opening statements in another national debate over nuclear weapons. While there seemed to be a growing consensus that the impending deal is better than no agreement at all, it was nevertheless promptly criticized from two contrasting viewpoints: some critics felt that the U.S. was yielding too much, while various arms-control specialists complained that the pact would legitimize both nuclear deployment to date and the further development plans of the two superpowers over the next ten years...
Unsurprisingly the consensus of the Democratic Congressmen is to bring the party together for 1976 and to make a decisive statement on the economic situation...
...Latin America who have based their hopes and aspirations on our strength. This is not a time to deny our own heritage, but is a moment of truth when we must stand erect and be counted."--"Our prestige is at a low ebb in Latin America--this is a consensus. It is low because our policy has been weak and indecisive."--"Freedom is dying in Chile and what it means to Latin America and to us--to free men everywhere--is not pleasant to contemplate...
...problem is to determine just what the consensus of student opinion is on the issue--and for many students, food is a very touchy subject. Jeffrey W. White '75, a member of Harvard Ecology Action, says he hopes to get the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life to approve an experimental period of meatless days, but adds that "no action should be taken unless there is a definite movement of student opinion." White and other members of Ecology Action distributed a questionnaire in some House dining halls last week and found that over half of the approximately 600 students polled...