Word: summited
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...with impunity call for better performances from U.S. schoolchildren. Those who are being hectored to pull up their socks and hit those books are too young to vote. So the 41 Governors who assembled last week in picturesque, exurban Palisades, New York, for the two-day National Education Summit had no reason to fear a backlash from their constituents--i.e., registered parents back home...
PALISADES, N.Y: Governors and business leaders who gathered for a summit on raising educational standards agreed Tuesday that states, not the federal government, should set the marks for student performance. At the first such summit in 1989, national standards were the goal. Now, amid a bipartisan push in Washington to allow states to experiment in education and welfare programs, the governors have the ear of a private sector that is increasingly worried about mediocre graduates. "The American people have spoken," IBM Chairman Louis Gerstner told the group. "They do not want national standards." Gerstner and Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson hosted...
...with a rambunctious King Hussein of Jordan as a roommate, periodically verged on nodding off. In fact, the hour allotted for the actual meeting of the leaders had to be cut back to 20 minutes because of the remarks. In any case, negotiations weren't the reason for the summit in the first place. A picture is worth at least $100 million, the amount Clinton pledged to Israel the next day toward an antiterror campaign...
Christopher suggested a summit meeting on terrorism to Clinton. Shimon Peres liked the idea, and so did Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Clinton decided to go ahead. He and Mubarak jointly invited Peres, the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat, Jordan's King Hussein, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and European and regional leaders to a conference this week at Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik. Christopher also telephoned Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shara. "I'll be pleasantly surprised if the Syrians attend," he said...
...summit will be more symbolic than substantive, but it is not simply posturing. The demonstration that Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and other Arab powers are joining Israel and the U.S. in the commitment to peace will isolate Hamas and other extremists. "In the Middle East," Christopher said, "if things aren't moving forward, they tend to be moving backward. That's why I want to minimize the period of being off track...