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...Esko Aho, who became the youngest Finnish Prime Minister in the country's history at the age of 36 in 1991, will join Jamil Mahuad, who just finished his term as Equador's president. Former McCain aide Rick Davis, Medicare chief Nancy Ann DeParle, former congressional representative and Vietnam War protestor Father Robert Drinan and investigative journalist Ted Conover will also lead student study groups that begin next week...
...Aho has been active in Norwegian politics since 1983 when he became a member of the Finnish parliament, and has, since 1990, led Finland's Centre Party...
...their roles. Says foreign policy analyst Michael Mandelbaum, a friend of President Clinton's who turned down a high U.S. State Department post in January: "What we have in Tokyo is a meeting of the world's strongest countries but the world's weakest leaders." It is, says Michael Aho, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, "the summit of the politically unpopular...
What will be the pact's effect on the global economy? Most economists believe that the world is drifting toward three major regional trading blocs: North America, Europe and, more slowly, Asia. The question, says Michael Aho, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, is whether these connections will turn out to be "benign or belligerent...
Such trade restrictions have had a large cumulative impact. Michael Aho, a senior economist at Manhattan's Council on Foreign Relations, estimates that in 1981 approximately 25% of all U.S. imports were subject to some form of government limitation. Now the total is 40% and, observes Aho, the "tendency is definitely for more." On the other hand, Claude Barfield, coordinator of trade policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, lauds the Administration for its continuing antiprotectionist restraint in the face of pressure to enact much more sweeping measures. The latest White House trade initiative, he points...