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...Danish capital in an atmosphere of unusual intimacy-even the Foreign Ministers will not be allowed into the discussions by the heads of state. Such a format, the Ministers reasoned, will allow their bosses to talk on a few key subjects and, with luck, reach a consensus. TIME's Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers reports on the new mood of Europe...
...will over the President's on nine other measures this year. Political analysts were quick to read into the override a new low in Nixon's authority. While such a drop has undoubtedly occurred, a more important reason for this particular congressional victory was a far-reaching consensus, even among some of Nixon's supporters, that the sole branch of Government empowered by the Constitution to "declare" war must somehow gain control over the presidential power to wage undeclared wars...
Albert operates much as Rayburn did-backstage, without seeking publicity or notoriety. Instead of twisting arms, he works for cooperation and consensus. But the very qualities that won him the votes to become McCormack's successor led some Representatives to doubt that he had, in Rayburn's phrase, the "iron in his backbone" needed to be an effective Speaker...
...staff got a hint at what was up when he asked key men: "What would you think of John Stennis as referee in the tapes dispute?" Whatever position each staff man took, Cox assumed an opposite stance, provoking discussion. By Tuesday, Cox and his staff had reached a consensus: the issue was not really whether Stennis was the right man; the whole procedure was wrong. No court would accept summaries of tapes as evidence. Any judge would insist on the tapes...
...many U.S. liberals and intellectuals, who used to preach détente and denounce cold warriors, now sharply question and even attack the current Nixon-Kissinger bargaining with the Soviets. For example, Political Scientist Hans J. Morgenthau recently decided that the Soviet Union is too far outside any "moral consensus" shared with the rest of the international community to be trusted to fulfill its commitments. In recent weeks the tough Jackson amendment that would deny the Soviet Union many U.S. trade advantages unless it changes its emigration policy won the endorsement of such liberals as Writer I.F. Stone and Columnist...