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WHEN EUROPE'S LEADERS GATHER this week on the Greek island of Corfu for their semiannual summit, unemployment will again top the formal agenda. But it is fair to surmise that it is their own jobs that are really at stake. Voters in the European Parliament elections of the past two weeks gave many leaders a sound drubbing -- while handing a few an unexpected boost -- in a crazy-quilt pattern that presages considerable political upheaval in the year to come...
...instead of continuing to demand that Tokyo open five priority markets ranging from automobiles to insurance. American officials said a deal covering telecommunications, medical equipment and insurance could be ready for signing next month when representatives of the world's leading industrial countries gather at the Group of Seven summit in Naples, Italy...
President Clinton was somewhat more upbeat about progress that former President Jimmy Carter announced last week during his visit to North Korea. Speaking on NBC's "Today" show, Clinton pointed to a proposed summit between the two Koreas as a sign of a potential diplomatic warming. He was more cautious about the centerpiece of Carter's trip: a reported agreement by Pyongyang to freeze its nuclear program. "We have surely something to gain by talking with the North Koreans, by avoiding further steps toward a crisis," said Clinton. "But we have to know there's been a change...
President Clinton will be the first U.S. leader to visit independent Russian neighbors Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia next month when he kicks off a grand swing through Europe. The Baltic stop will precede a meeting with Polish President Lech Walesa and the G-7 economic summit on July 8-10 in Naples. TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister says a friendly presidential visit to the Baltics was inevitable: they're serving as pathfinders to show Russia the way to modernization...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People began its annual three-day summit in Baltimore with a call to boycott South Carolina. The group was reacting to a statement by a federal judge in the Palmetto State, who said he doubted that a suit to remove the Confederate battle flag from the statehouse had much of a chance of success. More quietly, the N.A.A.C.P. welcomed Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, to their gathering...