Word: summited
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...cold war, has ended, and the architects of security are back at their drawing boards. They are trying to seal peace and stability into Europe's future and, although they don't say so very loudly, hedge against the rise of a vengeful Russia. In Madrid this week, a summit meeting of the 16 nations of NATO is starting to enlarge and reshape what is now usually described as the most successful alliance in history. The question is whether it will continue...
...enterprise intended to preserve international amity, the expansion of NATO has produced a discomforting amount of friction and ill will. Even this week's summit could turn into a "food fight," as an American official puts it, because the U.S. has ruled that only three new countries will be admitted to NATO in the first round, though others are to come in later. The welcome mat is out for the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. But France, Italy, Canada and other members of the alliance were pushing the candidacies of Romania and Slovenia, and in some conference rooms charges...
...crossings and slow, shaggy climbs through the mountains with warnings to stay in low gear for the next 17 miles. The road begins in Ocean City, Md., and by the time it runs out in California, it has crossed 12 states, the Great Plains, the Great Basin, passed Pancake Summit and the Confusion Range in Utah and Starve Hollow in Indiana, gone through towns like Strong City and Stagecoach and Hasty and at least three Salems. A few years ago, a man named Skip walked across it--backward...
After the NATO summit in Spain next week, Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT will travel to Eastern Europe to assuage the hard feelings of countries not on the list for immediate admission and to congratulate those who are, like her homeland, the Czech Republic. Though State Department officials say her visit to Prague will deal with NATO matters only, Albright will inevitably have to address her recently revealed Jewish heritage. Aides say she might consider a pilgrimage to the Pinkas Synagogue, where the names of 80,000 Holocaust victims are inscribed on the walls. Among them are five members...
President Bill Clinton and scores of other world leaders met last week at United Nations headquarters in New York City to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the 1992 environmental be-in known as the Rio Earth Summit. The heads of state were supposed to decide what further steps should be taken to halt the decline of Earth's life-support systems. In fact, this meeting had much the flavor of the original Earth Summit. To wit: empty promises, hollow rhetoric, hypocritical posturing, bickering between rich and poor, and irrelevant initiatives. Think Congress in slow motion...