Word: summited
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...asking it of Stacy Allison and Peggy Luce; to mountaineers, the answer is a shrug. The odds are the odds. Allison, a contractor and house framer from Portland, Ore., and Luce, a bicycle messenger from Seattle, members of a U.S. expedition from the Pacific Northwest, were among the 33 summit climbers. More important, as these matters are reckoned, they were the first and second U.S. women in history to reach the 29,108-ft. top of Everest (among the 200-odd climbers who had summited before were six other women, beginning with Japan's Junko Tabei...
...Bush and Reagan speeches, a campaign strategist and, above all, a negotiator of intricate deals. The one he found "most exciting," he says, occurred when, as a young Justice Department official, he helped broker Vice President Spiro Agnew's resignation. And the most significant? He names the 1986 economic-summit communique, improving policy coordination among the industrial democracies. Years hence, he predicts, that agreement will be seen as historic...
...modernizing the weapons until after national elections in December 1990. Already Kohl's Christian Democrats have suffered thrashings in six recent local elections, and his government might not survive an unpopular pledge to accept new nuclear weapons. Bush will try to nudge Kohl into a compromise before the NATO summit this spring...
...desire to unify Korea under his own brutal leadership, progress may be impossible until he passes from the scene. But even Kim, a pure Stalinist, has shown a willingness to open more lines of communication with Seoul, and South Korean President Roh Tae Woo himself predicts a North-South summit soon...
WORLD: With relations on the verge of normal, Beijing and Moscow schedule the first summit in 30 years...