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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...
...initial U.S. response to a North-South summit was cool. The Reagan Administration opposes the Third World's demand for "global negotiations" under U.N. auspices-an idea that will be strongly promoted at Cancún. Nor is the Administration, with its emphasis on economic retrenchment at home, enthusiastic about debating vast new outlays of foreign aid (now running at about $6 billion a year). The Reagan team, moreover, views foreign aid as an adjunct of its military and political policies, rewarding more on the basis of friendship than need...
Determined lobbying from Mexico's President Jose Lopez Portillo, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau helped persuade Reagan to attend Cancún. But he had conditions: Cuba's Fidel Castro must not attend, the meeting should not be held before the Ottawa summit, and there must be no fixed agenda...