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...Rambouillet, France...
...summits have changed greatly since the leaders of six industrial democracies gathered at the Chateau de Rambouillet outside Paris in 1975 (Canada was added the next year). They began as general and relatively informal private chats but quickly, and probably inevitably, took on most of the trappings of full-scale international conferences: months of preparatory meetings among planners known as sherpas (after the guides who take climbers to the summits of the Himalayas), set-speech expositions of national policies, large delegations attending each head of government...
...concept of summitry has come-or gone-in a decade. The first economic summit took place in November 1975, when French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing came up with the idea of gathering fellow leaders literally around a fireside in the secluded French château of Rambouillet. The only press suite was in the Hotel George V in Paris, about 25 miles away. Something tangible was accomplished: an agreement to change the articles of the International Monetary Fund to accommodate a new economic world of floating exchange rates. Since then, there has been a steady escalation in pomp...
...tour is, it will be tempered by the serious disputes within the Western alliance. The most complex of these will involve the economic issues confronting the leaders of the seven industrialized nations who will meet at Versailles.* The first Western economic summit was held in 1975 in Rambouillet, France, to grapple with worldwide inflation and soaring energy costs; not since then have so many economic problems seemed so difficult to control. For nearly three months, middle-level diplomats-known as "sherpas," after the Tibetan guides who lead the way to the summits of the Himalayas-have been trying to work...
DIED. Robert Boulin, 59, French Minister of Labor recently implicated by the press in a 1974 real estate scandal; after swallowing an overdose of barbiturates and drowning in a pond in the Rambouillet Forest, southwest of Paris. Boulin was the minister of longest record, having served all three governments of the Fifth Republic in nine different Cabinet posts in 15 years. A respected labor negotiator, he was rumored to have been a likely successor to the unpopular French Prime Minister, Raymond Barre. Initial speculation that Boulin was driven to suicide by published accounts of his alleged misconduct triggered a flurry...