Word: consensuses
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Even if the 40 nations achieve consensus, the larger issue of global cooperation remains. Despite the more hospitable climate in which the superpowers have been able to negotiate reductions in nuclear forces, neither the U.S. nor the Soviet Union is likely to surrender its chemical-weapon option if smaller nations continue to churn out poison gas. "It is an outstanding problem getting the Third World to recognize that it is better inside the chemical-warfare-disa rmament machine," says Research Fellow Harris. "If it can't be convinced, there won't be a treaty...
...mobile launchers, but the very high cost of such a system cannot be ignored. Another option consistent with Dukakis' position would be the deployment of Minuteman in multiple protective shelters (the so- called shell game). The real test for the next President is whether he can achieve a consensus within his own Executive Branch and with Congress. This Administration has utterly failed to do that...
...George McGovern's exhortation "Come home, America," while Republican activists have tended toward a unilateralist policy, symbolized by Reagan's call for America to "stand tall." Dukakis takes a third approach: he calls himself a "multilateralist." In other words, he portrays himself as part of the once dominant bipartisan consensus that favored asserting American influence through alliances, treaty organizations, economic partnerships and the United Nations, and in accordance with international law. His world view reflects his background as a lawyer who has a reformer's faith in legal and governmental processes...
...head of the Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, affirmed his theological acceptance of women priests but opposed the legislation because of the lack of consensus. The bill passed by only 58%, whereas two-thirds of bishops, clergy and laity (voting separately) will be required for final approval in 1992 or 1993. The bickering over women will find an even more prominent forum next week when bishops of the Episcopal Church, the Church of England and all other branches of Anglicanism gather in England for their once-a-decade Lambeth Conference...
...Beardsley points out in the catalog, the search for an identifiable American style was one of the great cultural fantasies of the 1950s and '60s. Once found, it was assumed, such a consensus would enable Americans to pit their art with confidence against the School of Paris. And it was found in abstract expressionism and then in color-field painting -- both high styles and, in theory at least, sociologically neutral. Thus, writes Curator Beardsley, there appeared an "unwritten presumption that the nearer an artist aspires to the level of high art, the more leached out will become the ethnic content...