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Keita's visit to Harvard is the first in a three-stop tour of the Americas. Today, the prime minister leaves for Bogota, Colombia to attend the Summit of Non-Alignment Nations. On Oct. 25, Keita will address the United Nations General Assembly on the progress of democratization in Africa...
Cochran tried to make the opposite point at trial--not every man who beats his wife murders her. But just last year at its "murder summit," the International Association of Police Chiefs concluded otherwise: because their figures show that most women who are murdered are killed by men they know who have previously attacked them, the chiefs agreed that one of the most efficient ways to reduce the homicide rate is to build more shelters...
...like China. And that's just to roll CO2 emissions back to 1990 levels, the goal most environmentalists endorse. To stave off global warming completely, Lindzen maintains, "you would have to reduce emissions to where they were in 1920." Despite noble proclamations issuing from meetings like the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, that is virtually inconceivable. As economist Henry Jacoby of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management puts it, "If you said, 'Let's design a problem that human institutions can't deal with,' you couldn't find one better than global warming...
Such contracts are still the exception, though, which is why the issue of biological resources was on the agenda at the United Nations' 1992 Earth Summit. Statements from the biodiversity convention that resulted declared that countries have a sovereign right to their resources and that benefits deriving from them should be shared fairly. The Bush Administration refused to sign the treaty; President Clinton did sign it, but the Senate has yet to ratify...
...visiting Nixon at San Clemente and vilified Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Alexei Kosygin. Hours later, a sleepwalking First Lady Pat Nixon appeared in a nightgown and was carried back to her bed by a kgb agent. How Brezhnev collapsed with seizures just before and after his 1975 summit in Vladivostok with Gerald Ford-and, while summiting with Jimmy Carter in Vienna in 1980, was so out of touch that his interpreters ad-libbed his drooling replies. How Ronald Reagan, when told Dobrynin was returning to Moscow in 1986 to become a Communist Party executive, asked in amazement...