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...seven world leaders came, ostensibly, to thrash out differences in trade policy and currency rates. But the most important consensus emerging from the ninth annual economic summit in Williamsburg, Va., last week had nothing to do with economics at all. In the hall that once reverberated with Patrick Henry's revolutionary oratory, the U.S., with the stout help of the British, forged an agreement among the allies to support resolutely NATO's plan to deploy nuclear weapons in Western Europe this year if no arms agreement can be reached with the Soviets...
FRENCH PRESIDENT Francois Mitterrand was the last leader to arrive at the recent summit conference in Williamsburg. While Mitterrand descended from his horse-drawn carriage, President Reagan waited at the entrance of the governor's colonial house. As the two heads of state shook hands, the cameras captured more than just the encounter of two important leaders. They also showed the meeting of representatives of two diametrically opposed solutions to the world's economic recession. So far, neither solution has worked. And, as the summit conference highlighted, the future holds but slim prospects for either...
Cooperation between the industrial nations is essential to promote recovery. Yet, as the Williamsburg summit showed, that cooperation is simply not forthcoming, and therein lies the greatest danger to the industrialized world. The Europeans believe that high American interest rates and the unstable monetary system that these rates have supposedly engendered are at the root of the economic mess. The Reagan Administration, though, is convinced recovery in this country will suffice to allow the United States to "pull" its European partners out of the recession...
...shadowy George Mason, near neighbor of Washington's and brilliant political writer, drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights in Williamsburg. A copy was dispatched to Philadelphia, where Jefferson read it just before he sat down to draft the Declaration of Independence. His masterwork had many glints of Mason...
...receptive observer in Williamsburg could carry away even more than sketches of great men and political events. That small band of Virginians two centuries ago relished good wine, played their fiddles with delight if uneven skill, spent the gentle evenings talking about literature, philosophy and the new findings in medicine and science. They examined the delicacy of the bloom in more than a hundred small gardens and inhaled the subtle scents of the catalpa trees ("Almost everything grows that is put into the ground," marveled a Swiss visitor in 1701). They worked and studied prodigiously for their beliefs, a diligence...