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Real leaders, at the Tokyo summit or anywhere...
...Northwest would not be so easily resolved. After a decade of unsustainable logging, court injunctions and federal inaction, the situation was dire when Clinton came to the White House. Said the President: "We have to play the hand we were dealt." In April he convened the much ballyhooed "Timber Summit" in Portland, where he promised to break the gridlock. Clinton set up three teams to tackle the problem, of which perhaps the most important was the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team, or FEMAT. Dressed in jeans, flannel shirts and running shoes, the 37 members , could look out from Portland...
...misery loves company, leaders attending the annual Group of Seven summit $ in Japan this week ought to feel right at home, for a sadder collection of bruises and black eyes would be hard to find. From John Major of Britain to Kiichi Miyazawa of Japan, the heads of the world's richest and most powerful democracies have been chewed up in a grinder of popular discontent...
...summit has an important script -- coordinating economic policies, stabilizing Russia and rescuing free trade -- but the actors seem far from up to 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...
...that Allison apparently contacted the RAND Corporation, a federally funded research and development center with which the Department of Defense has a contract for services, and asked that the contract be used to provide the services of Blackwill, an independent contractor with RAND, as his advisor at the Vancouver summit with Clinton and Russian president Boris Yeltsin...