Summit

The PTA Council of Baltimore County will host "Education: A Team Effort," a countywide educational summit for parents, educators and community leaders, at 6 p.m. today at New Town High School, 4931 New Town Blvd. in Owings Mills. The summit will include a reception with light fare, desserts prepared by Western School of Technology culinary arts students and exhibits by more than 60 organizations and associations. The fee is $10 per person. Information: 410-521-0019.

...TC WASHINGTON -- President-elect Bill Clinton's administration is planning a summit on ancient forests in the United States, but no schedule has been set, according to a Clinton aide and environmental and timber industry officials.Lisa Glantz of the National Audubon Society, and Barry Polsky, spokesman for the American Forest Resource Alliance, a timber industry group, said their organizations want to attend.The summit will be an effort to resolve a long-standing dispute between environmentalists, who want to protect old-growth forests and endangered species, and the timber industry, Ms. Glantz and Mr. Polsky said.

Organizers of a summit on African-American men that is to be held in Baltimore on June 29 say they are hoping to create standards of action and behavior for black men and develop a plan to encourage them to be more responsible for their families and communities.The event, "Baltimore's Men of the March: A Day of Commitment" follows last fall's Million Man March and is sponsored by the Mayor's Commission on African American Males. Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke said the summit will provide an opportunity to mobilize local black communities and establish a working agenda for African-Americans wanting to make positive changes.

LONDON -- British officials said yesterday that a response to Soviet interest in having President Mikhail S. Gorbachev invited to July's economic summit here would have to come jointly from the Group of Seven industrial nations.They suggested it was too early for a formal decision on the Soviet leader's attendance at the meeting of the West's richest nations.More time was needed to assess the Kremlin's commitment to economic reforms and their success, said an aide to Prime Minister John Major.

NAACP Executive Director Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., saying "we have defied the forces that want to divide us," concluded a national black leadership summit yesterday by branding it a "victory" and scheduling another conference in August.After three days of meetings, Dr. Chavis, Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam and dozens of other participants emerged with no results to report other than the formation of three working committees and plans for another summit."Really, I should say that we've just taken a recess.

County Executive Charles I. Ecker has set a date of Oct. 26 for a summit of community organizations, nonprofit agencies, religious groups and businesses to help solve Howard's homeless problem.Mr. Ecker also proposed this week that an additional $30,000 be allocated to the Grassroots motel shelter program for the rest of the fiscal year, which ends June 30.Grassroots, one of the county's primary homeless shelter organizations, maintains 20 beds in its Columbia shelter, 12 beds in a transitional shelter and 24 beds in the motel shelter program.

In his opening remarks at today's race relations summit at the Convention Center, Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke stressed that this was not a crisis summit, that race relations in Baltimore are generally good.Two hours later, after the first session of small "dialogue groups" at least the 40 people in one group might disagree with him. One of the first statements in the group was: "People are raging inside at each other's differences."Another person said early in the discussion: "I feel there's more prejudice today than at any point in history."

Organizers of an NAACP leadership summit Friday and Saturday in Columbia said they have assembled a prestigious group of Marylanders to discuss crime, health care, family stability and other issues affecting the black community.The summit panels' recommendations will be forwarded to community groups, state legislators and Maryland congressional members, said Hanley Norment, vice president of the Maryland State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People."This is not meant to be a conference to discuss what the problems are," Mr. Norment said.

LONDON -- In the last two years, the United Nations has held two huge human development conferences, on human rights in Vienna, Austria, and population problems in Cairo, Egypt. Now comes the third of the series: the World Summit on Social Development.Opening today in Copenhagen, Denmark, it will attract several thousand delegates, 3,000 nongovernmental organizations and, on its final two days Saturday and Sunday, an expected 130 heads of state or government. It is billed as the biggest U.N. conference ever.

HARLEM -- The traffic jam started at 125th Street and Lenox Avenue, forcing my cabdriver to creep his way the next two blocks up to 127th Street, site of the Nation of Islam's Mosque No. 7 and the summit called the "Hip Hop Day of Atonement."New York City police had set up barricades blocking 127th Street between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard. Police allowed the press through the barricade at precisely 1 p.m. so we could go to Room 429 inside the mosque, where a news conference with NOI New York representative Conrad Muhammad was to be held.