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Mara Liasson Reports From Lyon, France On The G-7 Summit.

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Published June 26, 1996 at 11:00 PM EDT

The annual meeting usually lets the leaders of the seven largest free market democracies discuss their economic policies, but the truck bombing in Saudi Arabia has pushed terrorism to the top of their agenda.

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