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...SEATTLE, NOVEMBER 1999 Taking to the streets to protest the spread of "Frankenfoods," among other issues, demonstrators trying to disrupt the World Trade Organization summit are tear-gassed and beaten by police...
Call it the summit shuttle: President Clinton, who arrived a day late to the G-8 summit in Okinawa, Japan, left a few hours early to make it back to the Israeli-Palestinian summit in time for dinner. Disease, hunger and education in the Third World were formally on the agenda in Japan, but Clinton and other officials were peppered with questions about Camp David. The President generally kept mum, although he did reveal that Barak and Arafat "have not wasted the time" that he was gone. Other administration officials were introduced at press briefings as being "ready to answer...
Acronym alert: The Japanese hosts wanted to make this an Internet summit (even though Prime Minister Mori only learned to use a mouse a few months ago), so the summiteers issued an Okinawa Charter on Global Information Society and promised to do more to wire the developing world. Beforehand, U.S. officials stopped talking about bridging the "digital divide" that threatens to separate rich countries from poor, but instead started pushing the idea of creating more "digital opportunity" for developing countries. Reason: At Okinawa, they announced they were forming a new Digital Opportunity Task Force, or DOT Force...
...grows in Okinawa, too: Amid the meetings, formal banquets and cultural shows (in this case, a demonstration of karate, which originated on Okinawa), every major summit has some moments of inexplicable silliness. This summit's contribution to the genre: the leaders "planting a tree" by each throwing a shovel of dirt on a pine tree that was already planted, and dutifully examining with feigned interest a new high-tech voting machine that Japan's Prime Minister Mori was quite proud...
...chopper, he kept looking in his rear-view mirror for the speeding entourage. After a while, he thought, "They must have taken a different route." It was only when he got to the White House that he learned they hadn't left. Presidential spokesman Joe Lockhart, equally sure the summit was scuppered, told his wife and daughter to meet him at his White House office Wednesday evening. After waiting there in vain for four hours, the pair gave up and went back home...