Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left devalues the Holocaust as well. At the summit for progressive Jews, the New York Tikkun conference, one speaker said that Jews should sympathize with Palestinians who are experiencing another Holocaust...
...Summit; 276 pages...
...suspect in the 1985 abduction and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. Many DEA agents wondered why it took so long to capture Felix Gallardo, since he had been living openly in Guadalajara. Some suspected that his arrest had been timed to coincide with last week's "law-enforcement summit" between U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Alvarez del Castillo...
...last week the Vietnamese announced their retreat, a withdrawal that paved the way for a successful summit next month between Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. The joint declaration was made by Viet Nam, Kampuchea and Laos, but it came largely at the instigation of the Soviets. "The military doesn't like it. They don't believe ((Premier)) Hun Sen's forces are ready," said a senior Vietnamese official in Ho Chi Minh City. "Basically, it's a political decision to withdraw. There's a lot of pressure to get out, especially from the Soviets." Moscow could ill afford...
...other is to see the work in the studio, which, owing to the difficulties of finding addresses in Moscow and the suspicions some artists unsurprisingly have about strangers, is not an exercise for the dilettante. "Unofficial" artists are at the bottom of the official pole whose summit is the Academy of Arts, that august body of 77 academicians and 99 alternate members. Among them are the state propagandists, whose mission it is to turn out the unending stream of statues of Lenin (with benign and resolute features that grow more Asiatic the further east they go) for public places from...