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...Ross, the Middle East has almost become an obsession. "We have seen too many victims," he said just weeks before the summit. "There has been too much violence; there has been too much pain and too much sorrow. It would not be responsible for us to sit back and not try to seize this moment." That obsession has meant a lot of traveling. He has flown abroad hundreds of times in search of peace. He has driven the region's embassies nuts, preferring to travel light and shunning the press, allowing no reporters to follow him and working without...
...that's true, then drug companies and Western governments have lost a major excuse for inaction. When the G-8 economic summit convenes this week in Okinawa, AIDS will be a major item on the agenda. And while the African crisis may worsen, it's at least possible that last week's consciousness-raising meeting in Durban could mark a change in attitude--and perhaps even a tiny glimmer of hope...
...regeneration. By the late 1990s, the debt of these countries had reached absurd proportions. Today, for instance, every man, woman and child in Guinea-Bissau owes global lenders $964--a problem for a nation where per capita income is $160 a year. At last year's G-8 economic summit in Germany, the world's richest countries adopted a plan to help bail out these nations. They will return to the issue at this week's summit in Okinawa...
Since last year's summit, there has been a slow acceleration of forgiveness. And the 2001 U.S. foreign-aid bill, which passed the House last week, would provide for an additional $238 million. President Clinton complains that even that sum isn't enough, but Congress is reluctant to up the ante because, in part, it fears that too much forgiveness will invite future profligacy. Further deals, Clinton says, are a chance for the U.S. to share its prosperity with the rest of the world--and to ensure that prosperity continues...
...arrested in London for public drunkenness 10. Thieves' hangouts 13. Empty, mathematically 15. Japanese honorific 19. Itches 20. He said Washington has too much money 21. Wife, in Latin and legalese 22. Who gets to call it home was at the heart of last week's Washington summit 25. On the __ (hot-footin' it outta town) 26. D.D.E.'s WW II oversight 27. Tie breakers in some sports, briefly 29. Bay of Fundy phenomenon 30. At some point, a lawyer gives it a rest 32. WW II enlistee 36. They've got a new logo and a new commitment...