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...change of policy" toward Cuba. Yet it was clear that Washington's move would contribute greatly to ending Cuba's ten-year isolation from most of the Western Hemisphere. At the urging of Mexico, Argentina and Peru, the Foreign Ministers in Washington last week reached a "consensus" that Cuba should be invited to their gathering next March in Buenos Aires. Several countries, including Chile, opposed the invitation, but even such strongly anti-Communist representatives as Brazil's Foreign Minister Antonio Azeredo da Silveira voiced no objection. Mexico's Foreign Minister Emilio O. Rabasa announced that Castro...
...group reaches all its decisions by consensus. The smallness of the group permits "marginal differences of opinion to remain marginal," according to Blum...
...Corporation maintains its consensus. According to Burr, "If you [the president] don't like the way a guy is doing things, you ask him to quit and he quits--or else he is powerless." Disagreement is tantamount to resignation, although "most of the issues lend themselves to some sort of middle level of decision," Calkins says...
...Science addressed a different set of issues: the mathematical and biological underpinnings of the theory that geneticists use to estimate heritabilities of phenotypic traits, and the applicability of that theory to IQ test scores. One frequently reads (for example, in letters to The Crimson) that there is a consensus among quantitative geneticists that the heritability of IQ is in the range .6 to .8. This conclusion, if true, would mean that most of the IQ variation in the white U.S. population results from genetic differences. My Science article argued that "heritability of IQ" is a strictly meaningless concept...
...political situation in NATO and the Common Market is rather similar to what the U.S. would have to endure if it had a Cabinet that included, say, Edward Kennedy, Barry Goldwater, George McGovern and George Wallace, each with his own constituency, sitting down and trying to reach a consensus. If they allow the U.S. to take part in major decisions, Europeans contend, the Americans would divide them. Says West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel: "We cannot have Americans at the table. No European sits in the State Department...