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With that dramatic call to action, former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt this week presents his long-awaited report on the Gordian problem of relations between rich and poor nations. With a barrage of chilling statistics and often eloquent prose, the 1971 Nobel Peace prizewinner proposes a summit of some 25 world leaders to focus on "mutual interests in the field of peace, justice and jobs." While charging that the "air is thick with alibis for inaction," he says that nothing less than a summit will concentrate world attention on the "mortal dangers threatening our children and grandchildren...
Three years ago, World Bank President Robert S. McNamara asked Brandt to head a private study on the unsettled and potentially explosive relations between industrialized and developing countries. Joining Brandt were 17 other luminaries, including such former heads of government as Chile's Eduardo Frei, Britain's Edward Heath and Sweden's Olof Palme. Americans on the Brandt commission were Katharine Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Co., and Peter G. Peterson, chairman of the Wall Street investment bank of Lehman
...emergency program" for 1980-85, the Brandt report proposes four steps...
Economic Reform. The group proposes the creation of a new international financial institution where the poor countries would have a stronger voice in bankrolling further development. Brandt calls for the establishment of an international tax, perhaps on trade or arms shipments, with the proceeds going to the poorer nations. The troubled world money system should be reformed to restore greater stability among the leading currencies...
...Keith Brandt, the Mather "D" tallied ten sacks and kept Lowell to under 50 yards total offense for the afternoon...