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Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau had kicked off the session in his hectoring style by demanding to know each nation's economic plans. "Can we control inflation without imposing unacceptable levels of unemployment?" he asked. "When will real rates of interest come down, and if that depends on deficits coming down, how long can we wait?" Then he turned to Reagan and asked how the other leaders could help him politically in his struggle with Congress to reduce the U.S. budget deficit...
...with fighting inflation is a large part of the problem: it causes high American interest rates, which pull up rates around the world. At the summit, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told Reagan that "the real impediment to productive investment is high interest rates," and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau asked: "How long can we wait until inter est rates come down?" Reagan replied that he was trying to reduce rates by trim ming deficits and even claimed that a balanced U.S. budget is "in sight." When? Treasury Secretary Regan later answered wryly: "President Reagan is a man of long...
While the K-School has only recently stepped up its efforts abroad--adding new Third World recruiting teams--it has a long list of illustrious foreign alumni. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau graduated from the school in 1948; Singapore's Premier Lee Kuan Yew was a fellow at the Institute of Politics in 1968 and 1970; and Mexico's President-elect Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado received...
Another source for summer reading suggestions sits untapped by the reference desk at Lamont Library, with the names of 35 books recommended by students. Authors range from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Garry Trudeau, but not Medawer or Homer...
...Even so, Trudeau was able to bring around only nine provincial leaders. Rene Levesque, the premier of predominantly French-speaking Quebec, rejected Trudeau's compromise because it eliminated Quebec's traditional veto, which it has used to guard control over such sensitive matters as culture and education...