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This has been a week of superlatives for volunteering. The country, directed by President Clinton, is focusing on the power of individuals to effect change for their communities and for the nation as a whole. This week began with the President's Summit for America's Future, a three-day conference on civic action which wants to engage volunteers and collect corporate money to help two million children by the year 2000. In a rally for volunteerism in Philadelphia, President Clinton spoke words of inspiration to the 5,000 listeners who joined him: "We're still losing too many kids...
...President's Summit comes at a significant moment, both socially and politically. According to recent studies by Robert Putnam, popularized in his article "Bowling Alone," rates of volunteerism in America are down. Although the nuances of the findings have been contested, it is generally agreed that hours devoted personally to hands-on volunteering have dropped significantly over the past 50 years. Many argue that the decline is rooted in government action crowding out individual volunteering by undermining a sense of personal responsibility. We--as a nation but more significantly, as the young and educated of this country--are less involved...
KINSHASA, Zaire: Confusion overtook the planned Friday summit between Mobuto Sese Seko and rebel leader Laurent Kabila when the embattled Zairian president didn't show up for his flight, leaving some befuddled Zairian Cabinet ministers waiting at the Kinshasa airport. Government officials said the meeting was now slated for Saturday, while rebel spokesman Bizima Karaha was pushing for Sunday. South African officials, meanwhile, were still insisting that the summit would take place on Friday as planned. U.S. envoy Bill Richardson is now trying to salvage the peace talks...
...Sister Carol hopes that summit participants discover there's a limit to what volunteerism can accomplish. The gathering is little more than a feel-good festival, she says, if it doesn't lead to a strategy for better schools and jobs. Steady work is scarce in the industrial ruins, enrollment at six area schools shows a 95% poverty rate, and two-thirds of the students don't graduate. Villanova's Dore grew up in suburban Philadelphia watching her peers waste opportunities. Here, she says, in a neighborhood 78% Latino and 11% black, kids are hungry for any advantage...
PHILADELPHIA: "The era of big government may be over but the era of big challenges for our country is not," President Clinton said Monday in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia. "So we need an era of big citizenship." At the Presidents' Summit for America's Future, big citizenship meant big names. Former Presidents Bush and Ford and former first lady Nancy Reagan, representing President Reagan, lined up on stage to sign a declaration of a "call to service" on the same site where delegates once signed the Declaration of Independence. Jimmy Carter spoke by cell phone...