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Other events held this month by the AIDS Institute included a summit to address the AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa. United States and Southern African leaders participated in the discussion, which took place at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
...million years, the North Pole melted last August, according to a report in The New York Times. Now, it appears that the good citizens of Florida have sent two former oil company executives to the highest offices in the land. To top it all off, a U.N. summit on climate change broke up in The Hague over the weekend in the usual acrimony over who gets to pay for pricey pollution-control measures...
Your report on Hugo Chavez Frias, President of Venezuela and host of the 40th anniversary summit of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries [BUSINESS, Oct. 9], served to support my view that developed countries should desist from blaming OPEC for economic problems that may result from rising oil prices. OPEC countries are entitled to use their natural resources to develop economically. They do not need Western countries dictating how much they want to pay for a barrel of oil. If the Western countries cannot afford to buy oil from OPEC because of the high prices, then they can do themselves...
...behind him. This time it was the local news, just after 11 p.m., and the p.r. volleys flew far and wide. "I don't know what those ballots will show," Gore insisted. "Our democracy is the winner tonight." The vice president asked again, just as safely, for a peace summit with Bush, asked again for both sides' troops to keep their voices down. (This with David Boies due up next from Tallahassee.) Then he gallantly insisted upon the sanctity of electorhood, forswearing the support of any Bush electors - even though he had of course won the popular vote, remember? Heck...
...characteristics of a state. And when Bosnia blew up, and then Kosovo last year, the Europeans were faced with the undeniable fact that they didn't have the muscle to intervene, and had to turn to the U.S. on a purely European matter. It was at a summit held last summer, in the immediate wake of Kosovo, that they set their requirements as a force of 60,000 that can be sustained for a year in the field. And this week they announced that the different European countries had committed some 100,000 troops, from which that 60,000 could...