Word: canc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think they have seen fine meetings and I think great progress has been made." So said Ronald Reagan last week about the summit in Cancún, Mexico, where he met leaders from seven other industrialized nations and 14 developing nations. Billed as the first dialogue between the mostly rich Northern Hemisphere and the mostly poor South, the conference was intended to seek ways in which the haves could help the have-nots climb out of poverty. Yet the meeting broke up with no real achievements, and little consensus other than that the U.S. cannot be pushed where it does...
...Reagan pleased? Mainly because a potentially acrimonious confrontation had ended in a benign stalemate. From the start, most of the participants knew that the President strongly disagreed with them on how the central issues should be resolved. As a visitor who came to Cancún bearing good will but no concessions, Reagan, or at least his advisers, fully expected some nasty condemnations by the more outspoken of the Third World leaders present. But few hisses were heard. Not only were the formal sessions remarkably free of rancor, but the summit gave Reagan a chance to hold surprisingly friendly chats...
...leaders flew into Cancún airport, each one arriving about half an hour apart so López Portillo could welcome them individually. Heat hung over the airport like a suffocating cloud; the temperature on the tarmac approached 100°. Dressed in long-sleeved uniforms with helmets and combat boots, several hundred presidential guardsmen stood on the steaming runway all day to greet the dignitaries. One young private, spying a reporter with an arrival schedule, pleaded, "When is the last one, please?" When Air Force One landed, Reagan greeted López Portillo with a warm abrazo. The pair...
Considering the summit's theme of world poverty and hunger, the setting for the conference was a trifle incongruous. Cancún is a lush, 14-mile-long island resort near the Yucatan Peninsula, studded with gleaming hotels and condominiums. Delegation leaders were assigned identical two-room suites, complete with terrace and Jacuzzi, in the pyramid-shaped Sheraton Hotel, hard by the Caribbean. On the day before the conference began, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos went waterskiing, while Reagan and his aides lolled away half an hour on the beach...
...summit ended, the participants tried to put the best face on its ambiguous outcome. "Our purpose was to renew the dialogue between the North and the South," said López Portillo. "This was done." Added Algeria's Ambassador to the U.N. Mohammed Bedjaoui: "We leave Cancún with great enthusiasm." Yet the results hardly rate those reviews, for the summit failed to reach an agreement on the two most important issues: global negotiations and a World Bank energy affiliate...