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Forget the warm smiles and bonhomie that usually attend summitry. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra and his Salvadoran counterpart, Alfredo Cristiani, kept their distance during photo opportunities, and the 20 hours of negotiations sometimes grew strained. But when the five Central American Presidents emerged from their seventh regional summit near San Jose, Costa Rica, they signed a final communique that referred to a common commitment to nudging a stalled peace process...
...recent weeks may have been one reason he arrived in Malta with a long list of concrete proposals. Bush also seemed determined to prove to public opinion in the U.S. and Europe that the American President was just as committed to building the peace as his popular Soviet counterpart...
...President laid out several substantial proposals for his receptive counterpart. Among them was a bid to hold the next summit on dry land. Weather permitting...
...Civic forum opposition movement and its Slovak counterpart, Public Against Violence, have threatened a nationwide general strike for Monday if a satisfactory government has not been formed...
...Some teams, say the Cornells of the world, are able to lose somebody and replace them with someone that is almost their counterpart or their equal," Flynn said. "We can't do that. We don't have that consistency throughout the line...