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Council President Carey W. Gabay '94 announced that the finance committee will hold a second summit with Phillips Brooks House leaders thisWednesday to discuss future funding policies...
...MONDE, FRANCE: "Washington reckons that the adoption of NAFTA and the perspective of a 'successful' Seattle summit will leave France more isolated than ever in its position on the GATT negotiations...
...unusual step of endorsing Hosokawa's agenda during the campaign, turned down the heat on U.S.-Japan trade issues and even intervened in international money markets in order to help buy time for the reformist Prime Minister. But as Clinton told Hosokawa at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Seattle, the U.S. is eager to see results now that the political-reform bill is all but assured. Foremost on Washington's wish list for Tokyo is a Japanese tax cut to revive the economy, now headed for a second consecutive quarter of negative growth. Japan's trade surplus with...
This week's summit is actually a meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, a four-year-old association of 11 Asian nations and the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. At this point, it amounts to little more than a trade-issues study group. Though Washington has avoided taking any position on the matter for now, the U.S. might eventually prefer to see APEC become a mechanism to bind Pacific Rim nations into a NAFTA-style trade family, especially in the face of sentiment building among some Asian nations in favor of regional trade arrangements that exclude...
...sardonic Kennedy scene still intrigues. After the summit meeting with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961, the weary President with an aching back had a few friends in for dinner in the old mansion where he stayed in Palm Beach. Frank Sinatra crooned from records in the background. There were daiquiris and pompano and deep talk about the Soviet menace. Kennedy weighed the Soviet leaders and their diplomats, then suddenly said, "You know that they have an atomic bomb in the attic of the Soviet Union embassy up on 16th Street? If war comes, they are going to trigger it and take...