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MOSCOW: The weekend summit between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the leaders of the seven major industrialized nations could provide a needed boost to Yeltsin's struggling reelection campaign. With the G-7 seeking to prevent a return to power by Russia's increasingly popular Communist Party, the biggest concern for G-7 leaders was showing support for Yeltsin and his reform policies. "All the pomp and ceremony of being seen with world leaders has to have some impact on voters," Moscow correspondent Sally Donnelly says. "Standing near people like German Chancellor Kohl and President Clinton touches the Russian idea...
Even those who disdain the American system admit now their own is badly broken. President Jacques Chirac of France, who hosted a jobs summit last week of the seven rich industrial countries, called for a "third path" between the too cozy welfare state and the "precarious" U.S. labor market. Taking the American approach immediately is simply not an option. "Any political party that tried would run into a cultural wall upholding public service, entitlements, paid vacations and so forth," says Jean-Marie Chevalier, a University of Paris economics professor. "They'd be kicked...
...much for the broken part. The fixing proved contentious. Most of the Governors were at pains to distinguish this summit from the gathering of state leaders assembled by President George Bush in 1989. That conclave, in which Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton played an influential role, wound up endorsing the formulation of federally developed national standards by which student competence would be judged. This decision not only ran counter to the nation's long tradition of local control (thanks to local funding) of public schools; it also proved embarrassingly hard to implement. A blue-ribbon panel dithered over a national history...
President Clinton, who spoke at the summit on its final day, acknowledged that attempts to establish national standards have been "less than successful." But if setting one goal seems impossible, what is to be done...
After much debate, the summit participants addressed this question with three resolutions. The Governors agreed to adopt their own "internationally competitive academic standards" within two years. The business leaders pledged that in one year they will begin asking for academic transcripts from job applicants and consider a state's educational standards when deciding where to open new plants. And all resolved to establish within 90 days an independent, nongovernmental body that will act as an "information clearinghouse," measuring, comparing and reporting on each state's annual progress...