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Unfortunately for the rest of us, this year's G-8 summit???which marked the first time that leaders of the world's 16 biggest carbon emitters have sat down to talk about climate change?will be remembered as a lost opportunity. First of all, the 2050 pledge doesn't specify a baseline year. European leaders want to bring emissions down to 50% of 1990 levels, but host nation Japan seemed to indicate that it would be happy to use present-day levels. The difference in actual reductions would be enormous. So what appears to be a firm numerical target...
...fighting his emotions as he addressed the 18 Arab Kings, Presidents, Emirs and other leaders gathered round a horseshoe table in Morocco's Rabat Hilton. "This summit conference has been like a wedding feast for the Palestinians," said Yasser Arafat. After four days of sometimes bitter debate, the Arab summit???attended by such luminaries as Saudi Arabia's King Faisal, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, Algeria's Houari Boumedienne and Syria's Hafez Assad?had radically and dramatically altered the Middle East situation. The leaders, including even Jordan's acquiescent King Hussein, for the first time had unanimously endorsed Arafat...
...contact with Khrushchev, the man who was to play host to next month's summit conference?and the newsmen were almost mute. Surely De Gaulle had reported to Ike on his conversations with Khrushchev, on his belief that worthwhile concessions can be wrung from the Soviet leader at the summit???but no one could think of a question. "Why didn't you ask him?'' a discouraged U.S. newsman snapped at a visiting Frenchman. "He does not talk," answered the Frenchman with a shrug...
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