Article: SUMMIT ENDS AMID GLOOM ON ECONOMY

VENICE - President Reagan and leaders of the six other major industrial democracies issued a somber assessment of the world economy yesterday, saying it suffers from huge trade deficits, mammoth budget overruns and growing demands for protectionism.

But they offered few new solutions to the problems and did not propose how to make old ones work.

Instead, they agreed in a joint declaration ending their three-day summit here that "if world economic growth is insufficient, additional actions will be required." And even that, according to summit officials, prompted sharp debate.

"They agreed they can't stand pat," a Canadian Foreign Ministry official said of the leaders. But "they ...

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