Word: summited
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These are not academic questions. Bill Clinton has called a NATO summit to convene in Brussels next Jan. 10, to plan the organization's march eastward. The meeting, Secretary of State Warren Christopher told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, will "formally open the door to an evolutionary process of NATO expansion." He had just returned from an eight- day trip to the old Warsaw Pact countries to "renew" NATO and polish a plan to enlist those former Soviet satellites that are making visible progress toward democracy. "The alliance must embrace innovation or risk irrelevance," he reported to Congress...
Hillary Clinton, bravely venturing to Kansas City, Missouri, for a "health summit" organized by Dole at which she spoke along with no fewer than seven Republican Senators, gave a glimpse of the White House counterstrategy. She pointedly complimented Chafee for including universal coverage in his bill. The implication: the Administration will seek to get that established as the prime goal and convert the dispute into a mere debate about the best way to achieve it -- an argument Clinton's aides think they can win. The First Lady, however, drew only tepid applause, in sharp contrast to the raves inspired...
...latest cycle of killings is unlikely to change much except perhaps to increase the bitterness and intensify the violence. Last week Major and Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds took time off from an E.C. summit in Brussels to discuss the crisis privately, and agreed on the urgency of continuing talks on the future of Ulster. They concurred that all parties, including the I.R.A. and Protestant terrorist groups, could take part in negotiations if they ceased their terror campaigns. Before the Shankill bombing, John Hume, M.P. from Ulster, and Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the I.R.A...
...done its annoying work, converting Lichtenstein into a historical figure remarkable for his taste, his dependable virtuosity and his pictorial manners. He has become the great academician of the Pop movement -- its equivalent of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the English artist who, a hundred years ago, attained the summit of popularity with his idealized, skillfully painted and mildly sexy reconstructions of classical Roman life, done again, and again, and again...
...show of support, President Clinton will fly to Moscow in mid-January for a summit with Russian leader Boris Yeltsin...