Word: summited
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...partly because he didn't want to give the Republicans "a free ride for the next 60 days," said an Administration official. But Clinton also feared that the nation was beginning to tune him out. Last Friday, after delivering a forceful defense of free trade at the Americas Summit in Miami, Clinton met privately with 30 lawmakers from both parties. Wisconsin Republican Toby Roth, a fierce conservative, stood up and suggested the election might have gone Clinton's way had he struck such a probusiness tone in October. "Thank you for saying those things now," said Roth, "and not before...
Shortly before the CSCE summit began, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev refused to go through with the scheduled signing of documents to create loose military ties between Russia and the U.S.-led NATO alliance...
...recently-concluded free trade summit in Miami, the first such regional summit meeting in 27 years, hemispheric leaders agreed to have a treaty in place and implemented by the year...
European Union leaders, meanwhile, convened their own summit in Essen, Germany, to announce plans to open their trading bloc gradually to the former Soviet satellites of Eastern Europe. The move mirrors events on the other side of the Atlantic: If the all-American trade accord goes through, the U.S. is expected to depend far more on South America than on Europe or Japan in the next century...
...apart, today's historic meeting was described as calm and constructive and another date was set for December 19. Sinn Fein's delegation leader Martin McGuiness said, "We've made a beginning. It should have happened a long time ago." U.K. Prime Minister John Major, from a European summit in Germany, cautioned though that these sessions are only "talks about talks, but they do lead to getting Sinn Fein into a proper constituent process." Clear from today's exchange of formal statements: One of the biggest obstacles on the road to peace will be mutual disarmament...