Word: summiteer
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OPINION Corruption of the Mind Still cherished by many Westerners is the hope that one fine day a summit meeting will melt Russian suspicions of the West and bring about a lasting thaw in the cold war. Last week Russian Expert George Frost Kennan, 53, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, longtime favorite foreign-relations philosopher of U.S. liberal Democrats, did a thorough demolition job on the summit-meeting idea. Currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, Kennan argued in a speech broadcast by the BBC that summit meetings with the Russians are doomed in advance to failure. Reason: Soviet leaders...
...joint letter to President Eisenhower last week, six Democratic Congressmen urged him to consider a summit meeting with Russia. The horrors of nuclear warfare, they wrote, make the attempt worthwhile. The six: Minnesota's Eugene J. McCarthy, Montana's Lee Metcalf, Wisconsin's Henry S. Reuss, Pennsylvania's George M. Rhodes, California's James Roosevelt, New Jersey's Frank Thompson...
PARIS, Nov. 28--NATO nations decided today to go ahead with next month's summit meeting even if ailing President Eisenhower cannot attend. A communique from NATO's permanent council said, "We learn with regret that President Eisenhower will be prevented from attending the NATO meeting on December...
...blood vessel leading to the brain--a condition generally called a mild stroke. Although they reported that Ike is "alert" and "in good spirits," doctors have recommended several weeks of rest and the State Department has said "it is to be assumed" that he will not attend the NATO summit conference in Paris next month...
Officials in Washington speculated that Nixon may take the President's place at the NATO conference, though some sources have suggested that other participating countries may prefer to go ahead with the meeting on a cabinet level, postponing a summit consultation until Ike could attend...