Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Doonesbury cartoon. A rethinking of the cold war is taking place at higher levels too. When a senior Democratic Senator noted in conversation that the cold war might indeed have ended, he was saying no more than Ronald Reagan said upon his return from the Moscow summit when he talked of the end of the postwar era. Since postwar has always meant cold war, the President was signaling the advent of some historic change...
Twenty-five years ago, J.F. Powers reached a summit in his literary career and chose that moment to make a surprising announcement. After building a quietly distinguished reputation with two collections of stories, Prince of Darkness (1947) and The Presence of Grace (1956), he had just won the National Book Award for his 1962 novel Morte D'Urban. In the hubbub after his prize, Powers dropped his revelation. His next novel, he told reporters, would not have a priest...
...provoked Arab criticism that the King is trying to usurp the P.L.O.'s role. Hussein's attempts to promote the U.S.-sponsored peace plan have met with angry charges that he intends to speak for the Palestinians. "Our efforts are misconstrued as competition," he said plaintively at the Arab summit in Algiers last June...
...Hussein's patience was already strained, the summit in Algiers pushed it to the snapping point. During the three-day meeting, Hussein, whose government spends up to $70 million annually on administration in the West Bank, appealed to Arab leaders to honor past financial commitments, as well as new ones, to both the P.L.O. and Jordan. He was turned down on both counts. Instead, the summiteers voted to pay the P.L.O. $128 million directly to defray the costs of the intifadeh so far, plus $43 million a month to keep the uprising alive. (Not a dinar of that pledge...
...summit with Jackson, like everything else during the convention, clicked perfectly for Dukakis. Afterward, he and Jackson posed with the designated vice-presidential nominee, Lloyd Bentsen of Texas. The Three Amigos wore happy smiles that belied the quirky nature of the tableau they presented; somehow the nominating convention was giving birth to a trio of party leaders rather than the usual ticket of two. For the moment, Jackson stood ready to submerge his agenda for that of the party. But the three's-a-crowd awkwardness revealed fissures along racial and ideological lines that could someday threaten the foundations...