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INDEPENDENT
COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ISSUES
The Toronto Globe and Mail, on April 7, 1980, reported the story of a
conference to be hosted by Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, that fall,
which would "reshape global structures." The Summit, known as the
"North-South Dialogue," was sponsored by the Independent Commission on
International Development Issues, and was to include President Carter,
and West Germany's Helmut Schmidt.
The Commission, consisted of 18 members, had been established in
December, 1977, and was chaired by former West German Chancellor Willy
Brandt. In 1980, they published a 380-page report called North-South: A
Program for Survival, which called for the "instant" redistribution of
wealth from the richer, to poorer nations, and a stepping up of world
disarmament. They wanted "greater power for the International Monetary
Fund and the World Bank." Their rationale was that the "transfer of
wealth must be tackled, not out of charity, but to ward off economic
collapse...Hence, the global super summit now. Worldwide security is not
achieved by granting more aid, but by reshaping global structures, by
greater regionalized planning and development."
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