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JACKSON HOLE, Wyo.--President Bush and Soviet Leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev will hold their first summit meeting next year, officials announced Saturday as the two superpowers completed a half-dozen accords and cleared a major roadblock to a treaty on slashing long-range nuclear weapons...
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze, who spent the weekend in talks with Secretary of State James A. Baker III, said the summit would be held in "spring or early summer." He announced a key concession from Moscow to move ahead toward a long-range weapons agreement despite its objections to the U.S. Star Wars program...
Europe's new assertiveness poses a special challenge for Washington, which has long been accustomed to treating Western Europe as a junior partner, particularly when it comes to managing the global economy and East-West security. At last May's NATO summit meeting, President Bush asserted traditional U.S. leadership with his proposals for an accelerated timetable of reductions in conventional arms. But he was forced to bow to West German demands that the alliance postpone a decision on deploying a new U.S. tactical missile to modernize NATO's nuclear arsenal...
...coming months and years Washington is likely to be confronted by European contrariness and even defiance on subjects ranging from arms control to international economic cooperation. At the summit of the seven industrialized powers in Paris this summer, the E.C. sought and secured the lead role in coordinating the West's efforts to aid Poland and Hungary. At the conventional-arms talks in Vienna, the U.S., NATO's erstwhile champion, now sits alongside other alliance members at the negotiating table. In the Middle East, France seems to be bidding to take a lead role, seeking to negotiate a cease-fire...
SOMETIMES, responsibility seems to become too much to ask. Self-reliance indeed was the reason for the milestone summit of collegiate minorities at Harvard in February. Dubbed the Intercollegiate Conference, more than 1000 students from schools throughout New England and the Ivy League congregated in Cambridge to build coalitions between Black, Hispanic, Asian-American and Native American communities...