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...practice, of course, Lyndon Johnson can only work through consent and consensus, and even then his policies are resisted by many senior Democrats on the Hill-as Senator J. William Fulbright demonstrated last week by castigating the Administration's decision to land troops in the Dominican Republic (see THE HEMISPHERE...
Balance & Consensus. Protégé of the austere Pius XII, close friend of the jovial John XXIII, Giovanni Battista Montim in the third year of his pontificate has slowly emerged from the shadow of his great predecessors with a style and program all his own. John was an intuitive, charismatic prophet who threw open the windows and doors of the church to let in fresh air without worrying about?or even fully understanding?the consequences. By contrast, Paul is a detached and painstakingly analytical technician who has left the windows open?but who keeps checking the thermometer lest any cold drafts...
Nowhere has Paul's desire for balance and consensus been more apparent than in his dealings with the council, where time and again he has acted as a brake on the progressive majority. Occasionally his brake is well-executed. He took the crucial birth-control problem from council hands?which on the surface displays little faith in collegiality. Now, however, some Catholic thinkers feel that he may be more progressive on the issue than most of the bishops, and that he will gradually introduce a change in the church's stand that will ultimately leave the decision on birth limitation...
...party alone, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, has ruled Mexico, putting up a new President every six years in a cut-and-dried election. Some people might label it dictatorship. Mexicans call it "guided democracy," and by some alchemy the system does seem to operate as a sort of national consensus. Last week Mexico's President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz marched to the rostrum of the Chamber of Deputies to make his first state-of-the-nation address after nine months in office. His speech was a remarkable definition of Mexico's sense of stability, leadership and nationhood...
...small, noisy groups of leftists, he had a warning not to endanger the Mexican consensus by inciting strikes, disorders and sedition. For the anti-gringo nationalists, he criticized U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic. For Washington, which has provided massive loans and grants, there was praise for the Alliance for Progress (something that his predecessor, Adolfo López Mateos, never found it in his heart to do). For Mexico's ballooning middle class, there was a call to partnership with the public sector in building new businesses and factories. For the progress-minded, there was a rattling...