Word: summiteer
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...world's seven principal industrial powers last week in Venice, almost the entire opening dinner was taken up by an animated -- and inconclusive -- discussion of Gorbachev's arms-control maneuvers and campaign for glasnost (openness) and perestroika (economic restructuring) within the Soviet Union. At a press conference after the summit, a reporter reminded the President of polls showing that West Europeans put more faith in Gorbachev than in Reagan as a leader working for peace. Reagan replied, correctly, that the prospective agreement to rid Europe of intermediate-range nuclear missiles is based on proposals he made four years...
...Senate, the way that Bush's typically loyal conservative base sparked a movement against the bill by harping on the word "amnesty, " or the fact that he was unable to personally lobby for the bill last week (as he was out of the country at the G-8 summit), the bill's collapse will be seen as a significant administration failure unless the President manages to sway Republican lawmakers at Tuesday's lunch. A GOP senior staffer close to the negotiations over reviving the immigration bill said that Republican supporters are pleased that President Bush is showing some belated commitment...
...True, the onset of the G-8 meeting prompted Bush last week to announce new initiatives on climate change, fighting AIDS in Africa, and sanctions over Darfur. And the summit symbolizes the participants' willingness to work together to solve the world's major problems, for whatever that's worth. But policy discussion at the summit is largely symbolic. Bush would certainly have rolled out the AIDS money anyway, and he and Putin will meet elsewhere to talk about missile defense...
...each year, the summit seems to get more expensive and harder to justify. The protesters find new ways to beat the security preparations; the media plays its part by focusing largely on the activities of the protesters and those ranged against them; and the resulting escalation raises the chances of someone getting hurt or killed, as happened several years ago in Genoa...
...Countries certainly waste money on worse things. If the costs keep rising and people regularly get hurt, the summit should be shut down. But if the purpose of holding the G-8 has become the carnival of complaint that accompanies it, so be it. And if Channing Jones wants to hump several miles across a field to try and convince governments to help the common people...