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Accordingly, this meeting was presented as a sober working session, shorn of the pageantry that enveloped the old superpower summits. There was no state dinner, no glittering receptions, only six-plus hours devoted largely to pie charts and spreadsheets. Canadian newspapers were more witty than accurate in % describing it as an "alms race" -- not when the donors are reluctant to cross the starting line. But Topic A was the vexing and indispensable subject of American and other Western aid to Russia, complete with details of how much, when and for what projects. It might well be dubbed the "First...
...ruble; Moscow's failure to slow down the money-printing presses last year forced international backers to withhold stabilization funds. Russia also lost access to promised aid when it failed to make payments on its estimated $80 billion in foreign debt. That attitude is changing: just before the summit, the Paris Club, an informal group of creditor nations, agreed to give Moscow another 10 years to repay $15 billion in interest and principal originally...
...SUMMIT: The Alms Race...
DOOMSDAY ISSUES HAD NOT QUITE DISAPPEARED from the table. They lurked, in the form of two strategic-arms agreements yet to be put into full effect, as reminders of the cost of failing. But when Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin took their seats for Saturday's opening summit session, held in Vancouver, the throw weights on the agenda were denominated less in nuclear megatonnage than in dollars and acres of private farmland and doses of medicine and people-to- people exchanges. The two Presidents spent most of their time discussing how best to stabilize and begin mending the crippled Russian...
...President is also trying to get the so-called Group of Seven industrialized powers to coordinate and beef up their own direct aid to Russia. Then the G-7 will tackle heavy- duty measures to help stabilize Russia's ruble and supply vital imports. The group's summit, to which Yeltsin has been invited, is scheduled to convene in July in Tokyo. (See related story on page...