Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1960s, the close-knit New York City real estate community took notice of the new kids in town when the Tisches built the Summit Hotel, two apartment buildings and several motels. They acquired other hotels across the U.S., including the Mark Hopkins in San Francisco and the Ambassador hotels in Chicago...
...sprung pretty fast, it could holdup the summit," said Kondracke...
...attacking the U.S. for supporting Nicaraguan contras and rebels in Angola. He urged his fellow heads of state to provide economic aid if needed by the black African "frontline" states that are seeking to cut off trade with South Africa. In a television interview on the eve of the summit, Mugabe went further, telling reporters that he hoped the nonaligned nations would support military equipment and training to assist the black armed struggle in South Africa...
...purple shirt and black jacket, Gaddafi paused at one point during his speech to allow young Libyan women dressed in battle fatigues to chant cheerleader-style, "Down, down, U.S.A." Announcing that he planned to consult with his Libyan "people's committees" about withdrawing from the nonaligned, he called the summit a mere exchange of courtesies. "We meet," he said. "We eat together, we travel long distances and laugh together. In the cause of freedom we should not be nice to each other...
Some Western officials tried to find encouraging signs from the meeting. British diplomats claimed to detect new realism in the summit's debates because the conferees rejected a Cuban proposal to praise the Soviet Union's support for nonaligned nations. But the Reagan Administration did not draw such fine distinctions. Said State Department Spokesman Charles Redman: "The litany of arbitrary and unfounded charges is both highly offensive and counterproductive...