Word: conference
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...Amman, Haig made little headway in his talks with King Hussein. A longtime opponent of the Camp David accords, Hussein refused to confer privately with Haig and insisted on including his advisers in the two-hour meeting; as a member of Hussein's court put it, "The King wanted witnesses." The Jordanian ruler bluntly told Haig that "Israeli intransigence" on the Palestinian problem posed the greatest threat to peace and called for Israel's total withdrawal from occupied Arab land. "We see two dangers-Soviet as well as Israeli expansionism," said a Hussein adviser. "If the Americans want...
Though aides publicly asserted that Reagan would confer late this month with Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo as scheduled, they conceded in private that the session might be called...
After a trip to New York to meet with Citibank officials, Stevens returned to Cambridge to confer with Harvard's treasurer and other officials. Within days, the sale of the $5 million certificate of deposit and the $45 million in floating rate notes had begun...
Whew! A Defense Secretary soft on defense. Furthermore, Evans and Novak wrote, one William Howard Taft III "incredibly . . . has wound up on the list for the department's No. 3 post," though he has been known to confer with a Government official "whose views generally coincide with Senator George McGovern...
...politician. Yet the labor upheaval that toppled Party Boss Edward Gierek also made Solidarity's leader one of Poland's three most powerful people. The other two-new Party Boss Stanislaw Kania and Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, spiritual leader of Poland's 32 million Catholics-now confer with this diminutive union man almost as if he were a high state official. Walesa takes his dizzying rise to eminence in stride. Says he: "I am not concerned with fame in the least. I have a job to do and I do it." So far, he has done it remarkably...