Word: summiteering
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...easy to see how the various princes, sheiks and emirs might have felt a bit out of place at last week's 40th-anniversary summit of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. For one thing, members of the famously fractious group (given up for dead only a couple of years ago amid plummeting oil prices) hadn't been able to see their way through the wars, political infighting and price gouging to convene such a gathering for a quarter-century...
...have walked Prime Minister Ehud Barak back from the brink after the Israeli leader had vowed to abandon the peace process unless violence in Palestinian territories had abated by Monday evening. Barak on Monday night announced an extension of his ultimatum and also agreed to attend a regional peace summit if President Clinton manages to convene...
...Monday. "There is intense international diplomatic activity which we cannot reject or ignore.'' Translation: Israel's U.S. patron has made clear that it regards the violence as a two-sided affair, and Israel can't afford to alienate its only reliable ally. Still, even if the proposed peace summit in Egypt takes place, nobody's betting on any breakthroughs...
...stopped just short and remembered and thought, 'Well, perhaps, maybe I forgot some gear,' you know, 'I forgot some equipment.' I took some side paths that looked exciting, full of possibilities. What equipment did I lack? It was a stronger contact with the thickness of things." But abandoning the summit of Mt. Everest in search of new equipment proved a bold move indeed. Completely renouncing non-figurative art at a time when non-figurative art was considered the only right thing to do earned Guston brutal criticism, and his pivotal 1970 show at the Marlborough Gallery was almost universally reviled...
...been killed. And the failure of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's latest effort to forge an agreement to end the violence may be a sign that the events of the past week have stiffened the Palestinian leader's resolve at the negotiating table. After storming out of a summit meeting in Paris Wednesday - and reportedly only being stopped by Secretary Albright running after him and shouting to security staff to close the U.S. embassy gates to stop him leaving - Arafat returned to the talks but refused to sign an agreement without the promise of an international commission of inquiry...