Skeptics already call it the "lame-duck summit" because so many of the participants are in the waning stages of their elected tenures. There is also worry about lameness of another kind, a fear that the heads of the world's leading industrial democracies may be powerless to make the kind of daring compromises demanded by a perilous imbalance in world trade and by the threat of global recession. Indeed, there are plenty of signs that a gondola ride through troubled waters lies ahead for the leaders of the U.S., Japan, West Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada when they gather in Venice...
Navigating With Care
Troubled economic waters threaten the Venice summit
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