Word: summiteer
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Stifled by budget cuts and foundering without clear-cut goals, NASA has scheduled only one Mars probe, the Mars Observer, which will go into orbit around the planet in 1993 to collect data on climate and geology. And while President Reagan agreed at the recent Moscow summit to a cautious joint communique describing "scientific missions to the moon and Mars" as "areas of possible bilateral and international cooperation," the Administration has been at best lukewarm to the concept of exploring Mars, jointly or otherwise...
...longer warranted. But they lacked the confidence to bid up the currency because they feared the U.S. and other industrial countries might simply intervene in the markets and put the dollar back in its lowly place. In late June, however, that perception changed sharply. At their Toronto economic summit meeting, the leaders of the seven major industrialized countries, or G-7, issued a communique that showed no distinct resolve to fight a dollar rally, saying only that an increase in the currency's value "could be counterproductive." Traders took that language -- correctly or not -- as a subtle hint that...
Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita used last week's economic summit in Toronto to showcase Japan's growing involvement in global affairs. Takeshita unveiled a $50 billion foreign-aid package before the meeting that would make Tokyo the world's largest donor. Japan also announced a debt-relief program for Third World countries and agreed to phase out import quotas on oranges and beef...
...desire for a peaceful world that builds prosperity. What raises that commonplace above banality is the obvious sincerity behind it; repeated often enough, it could almost serve as an embryonic creed for modern Japan. Takeshita talks of creating an international furusato (hometown). Speaking in Chicago after last week's summit, he pledged Japan's cooperation in "helping to resolve and prevent conflicts" between nations and vowed that Japan would play an international role commensurate with its financial strength...
...statement was distributed in early June at the Arab summit in Algiers but was not widely discussed until it was published last week in the Arab press. "The means by which the Israelis want to achieve lasting peace and security is direct talks, with no attempt by any outside party to impose or veto a settlement," wrote Abu Sharif. "The Palestinians agree." The P.L.O. plea went on to give a qualified endorsement to United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338, which recognize Israel's right to exist within secure borders, and to state explicitly, perhaps for the first time, that...