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Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who will be host for the meeting, dropped in at the White House last week after a tour of European capitals to discuss the summit agenda with Reagan. The two politely agreed to disagree about some contentious questions, notably aid to the poor nations of the Third World (Reagan favors increased loans and investments by private business; Trudeau and other summit participants want more government-to-government help). Trudeau's main message: there will be no "confrontation" at the summit. Translation by one of his aides: "No gang-up on the Americans...
...reason for amiability is that elections and other political changes have broken up the old gang that argued so vociferously at previous economic summits. Trudeau, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain are the only veterans of these gatherings. President François Mitterrand of France and Prime Ministers Zenko Suzuki of Japan and Giovanni Spadolini of Italy are as new to summitry as Reagan. Suzuki is something of an odd man out; unlike the others, he speaks not a word of English. Spadolini was confirmed as head of Italy's 41st postwar government...
...Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, on keeping out of the public eye: "I've been trying for some time now to develop a life-style that doesn't require my presence...
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau at Colby College in Waterville, Me.: "You live in a deeply cynical world where generosity is in short supply, a world where taking a stand has come to mean finding the nearest trap door for escape...
...graduate school's student marshalls began kicking around possible graduation speakers, they shot high. Heads of state, former presidents--and President Reagan--were discussed. Why not shoot for the top?--that seemed to be the prevailing attitude, recalls one person involved. One faction favored an invitation to Pierre Trudeau, noting that this June would mark 25 years since the Canadian Prime Minister received his M.A. in government from Harvard in 1946. Other suggestions included Oriana Fallaci, Andrew Young, Jimmy Carter, Waiter Mondale, Howard Baker and numerous others. (Henry Cisneros, the Kennedy School alumnus recently elected mayor of San Antonio, ultimately...