Word: summiteering
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...most ballyhooed recent peace initiative--Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's offer of normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab states in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from all land seized in the 1967 war. Some version of the proposal will almost certainly be endorsed at next week's Arab summit in Beirut, but squabbling between Syria and the Saudis over the language of the plan could dilute it. While Abdullah says he is offering "full normalization"--meaning official trade, political and cultural relations between nations--Syrian officials want to change the language to "complete peace," a far less generous phrase...
PETER HILLARY AND TASHI TENZING Son of Sir Edmund Hillary and grandson of Tenzing Norgay The descendants of the pair first to summit Everest, in 1953, hope to do the same next month. Hillary and Tenzing--both have reached the top before--will climb separately and meet at the peak...
GARY GULLER First with one arm With funding from a Texas advocacy group for the disabled, Guller, whose arm was amputated after a 1986 climbing accident, will attempt to summit Everest in spring 2003. Last year he turned back...
...HOMMER First double amputee Hommer ascended 20,320-ft. Mount McKinley in 1999 and last year climbed 3,000 ft. short of Everest's peak. Now he's training for a new try next spring. The first person to summit with an artificial leg was Tom Whittaker...
...having ridden back to center stage on the recent wave of violence. Turning on the grassroots militants of his own movement in order to enforce a cease-fire may not be his first instinct right now. The rewards - a meeting with Cheney, a starring role at the Arab League summit - may not be enough to persuade him to tempt the wrath of the Palestinian street. Moreover, the Tenet-Mitchell cease-fire formula would require him to disarm the very militias whose actions have helped restore his political fortunes...