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...happened before, the big questions about unity at the meeting may revolve around French President François Mitterrand. This year France's position at the summit is cloudier than ever because of the installation in March of Conservative Jacques Chirac as Socialist Mitterrand's Premier. Chirac has decided to put in an appearance at the meeting, throwing the protocol-conscious Japanese into a tizzy. One compromise: Chirac will show up at Akasaka only after the opening state dinner, thus avoiding a major problem with head-table seating...
...Reykjavík meeting was similar to one between President Lyndon Johnson and Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in June 1967. That encounter too was organized on short notice, without a prearranged outcome and with only a few advisers on each side. Johnson relied most heavily on his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, later head of the World Bank and currently a director of the Ford Foundation. The following exclusive excerpt from his forthcoming book, Blundering into Disaster: Surviving the First Century of the Nuclear Age (Pantheon Books; $14.95), recounts that fateful meeting and its consequences...
...June 1967 the Soviet Premier, Aleksei Kosygin, came to New York City to visit the United Nations. After some difficulty, it was arranged for the Premier and President Johnson to meet on June 23 at Glassboro, NJ.--Glassboro is halfway between New York and Washington--to discuss the question of ABM deployment. At lunch in New Jersey on that June day, the President, the Premier and a group of their associates were sitting around a small oval table. It was clear the President was becoming frustrated by Kosygin's failure to see the U.S. point of view on ABM defenses...
...conduct attacks, in its fight against Israel and Jerusalem's Western allies. In France, parliamentary support for the conservative government's stance on terrorism seemed to falter last week as suspicions hardened in some quarters that Syria may have abetted the bombers. A raucous debate erupted last Wednesday after Premier Jacques Chirac told the National Assembly, "There can be no discussion, direct or indirect, with terrorists." Opposition deputies sharply questioned the government's appeals to Syria for help in tracking down the Paris bombers. Fumed Socialist Lionel Jospin: "If Country X in the Middle East is involved...
...Francisco's California Street and back, the sounds of heavyweight pushing and pulling echoed across the U.S. last week. Takeover tug-of-war, the contest of corporate wiles and financial muscle that has affected almost every major U.S. industry in the past two years, was back as a premier event in the business world. In the nation's top challenge matches, the largest U.S. steelmaker and the No. 2 banking company, already laden with problems, faced off with some ambitious would-be prizewinners...