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Where the Dons come from, mountains are deities. When last week's Millennium World Peace Summit, the grand religious confab affiliated with both the U.N. and Ted Turner, sought South America's purest practitioners of Incan and pre-Incan pantheism for its environmental panel, it turned to the Q'ero nation. The Q'ero, who live at an altitude of 15,000 ft. in several villages south of Cuzco, were amenable. They had had a prophetic vision about traveling to a far land to discuss the world's growing disharmony: pollution in the clouds that wreath their peaks, bizarrely early...
Anybody up for a little old-fashioned liberalism? A big sloppy kiss for the old guard of the Democratic party? Perhaps a few reminiscences about the Dems' last election year confab in Los Angeles...
...Throw into the mix a U.S. president who, both men know, will soon lose control over the diplomatic and financial levers that have enticed and cajoled them this far, and the chances of this Camp David summit achieving the sort of historic breakthrough as Jimmy Carter's 1978 confab with Israeli and Palestinian leaders are increasingly remote. President Clinton may have chosen the venue in the hope that the historical precedent would weigh on the minds of his guests, but unfortunately for him its outcome will invite comparison, too. And the U.S. president may be about to learn that...
...Ehud Barak when he hosts a make-or-break summit there next week. But while the historic 1977 meeting between President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menahem Begin may have produced an Israeli-Egyptian peace deal that became the crowning achievement of the Carter administration, President Clinton's confab looks like little more than a last-minute Hail Mary pass...
...President is the man who will ultimately bear the blame if something happens. But his top aides came away from their Monday confab with more questions than answers. They've developed a bad case of nerves since a suspicious Algerian was arrested at the Washington State-Canada border two weeks ago. But they have uncovered no mother lode of hard information about his plans. "You don't know what's true," says a senior intelligence official. "But the political price of making a mistake in judging is so high." Is the chief threat lurking abroad or at home? Is Osama...