Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 100 Harvard undergraduates will travel to Washington this coming Saturday to protest the persecution of Soviet Jews on the eve of a summit between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
According to sources at the Amman summit, the Syrian-Iraqi reconciliation implied by the condemnation of Iran will take concrete form in the next two weeks. Diplomatic relations will be restored, common borders will be reopened, and a dialogue between the governments will begin. For the moment, however, ! Syria is not severing its alliance with Iran. Foreign Minister Farouk Shara'a said, after the summit ended, that "Syria is against condemning Iran because it wasn't the beginner...
Bringing Syria around was not easy. The longtime feud between Assad and Saddam Hussein poisoned the first day's summit proceedings. The two men, who are rivals for leadership of the region's socialist Baath movement, refused to shake hands, exchange words or even look at each other. But after hours of delicate mediation by other Arab leaders, the atmosphere thawed. At one point, when the Syrian and Iraqi Foreign Ministers were deadlocked over a U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire in the gulf war, Jordanian Foreign Minister Taher Masri went to Assad's suite to discuss the problem...
Such success seemed a remote prospect when, a few days before the summit began, King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia announced he would stay home, a decision that was seen as a blow to King Hussein's prestige. Fahd's absence set off a new round of speculation about his effectiveness as a leader. Saudi watchers in Washington and Arab capitals say the King, in power since 1982, has proved disappointingly indecisive in dealing with Saudi Arabia's economic problems and its worsening relations with Iran. In addition, the King's battles with diabetes and obesity are said...
...latest Arab summit, however, produced no progress in the Middle East's other continuing crisis, the Arab-Israeli conflict. The delegates largely ignored the presence of Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, and King Hussein tried huddling with him to soothe any hurt feelings. Nonetheless, relations between the two leaders were strained. Arafat petulantly boycotted a summit banquet hosted by Hussein because he was not accorded the honors of a head of state...