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COLORADO'S CALLING A gathering of the world's industrialized powers? It's no big deal to Denver. Last week's Summit of the Eight was only one of many shindigs in the city this June (aside from the somber Timothy McVeigh trial). Some calendar highlights...
...Summit of the Eight (world-leader photo...
...Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky certainly won't bother pushing Japan to take in American umpires the way Washington once demanded the country import more Louisville Slugger bats. But Japan's trade surplus with the U.S. is once again rising at an alarming rate. At this weekend's Denver summit of the Group of Seven leading industrial nations, the U.S. will push Japan to open its economy further. "Japan's bureaucrats talk all the time about how they have an open market and believe in internationalization," says Robert M. Orr, a baseball enthusiast and vice president of the American Chamber...
...YORK: Shrugging off its tree-hugging past like a youthful indiscretion, the Clinton Administration plans to show this week's U.N. Earth Summit that green is now the color of dollar-denominated economic booms, not just campaigns to halt global warming. In a welcoming speech strangely at odds with his onetime reputation as the Clinton Administration's fiercest environmental warrior, Vice President Al Gore conceded that action on global warming is needed, but steered clear of specifics. "It's a big capitulation to industry," says TIME's Dick Thompson. "What's driving the U.S. economic expansion is greenhouse gases." Case...
DENVER: While this year's summit of major industrial nations will focus on topics ranging from terrorism to infectious diseases, President Clinton intends to steal the spotlight by flaunting the state of the U.S. economy. Clinton, who will arrive in Denver today for the three-day Summit of the Eight, has already set the tone, highlighting the American model of economic development and the policies the Administration has utilized to support private enterprise. "It's indefinable and intangible, but I think it has a lot to do with why we are who we are," he crowed to the Wall Street...