61.   A Tanzanian diplomat, Mchumo, told the council that there was no prospect of a consensus for appointing Supachai Panitchpakdi, the Thai candidate.

62.   Albright is trying to build a NATO consensus for air strikes.

63.   Barak will move cautiously and seek consensus for concessions.

64.   But any hope they have for achieving consensus for indefinite extension rests on finding non-binding language on disarmament goals that is acceptable to non-weapons states.

65.   But some diplomats said there was no Security Council consensus for a U.N. peacekeeping force.

66.   Chao said she wanted to build consensus for a new approach.

67.   Delegates have also been unable to resolve a procedural conflict over whether to require a three-fourths majority or consensus for any agreement reached in Berlin.

68.   Diplomats in the home stretch of a historic conference on the Non-Proliferation Treaty are making a last attempt to find a consensus for extending the nuclear pact indefinitely.

69.   Despite heavy lobbying by host Vietnam and other countries, the foreign ministers were unable to reach a consensus for a unanimous decision on the issue.

70.   Earlier in the week, caretaker Premier Romano Prodi told Scalfaro he had failed in his bid to forge a consensus for a fresh start.