Word: summiteering
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Occasionally the North Koreans have tried tunneling under the DMZ. In light of the historic summit meeting of the leaders of the two Koreas at Pyongyang last month, an easier transit may in the distant offing become reality. Addressing a gigantic rally in Seoul that climaxed the anniversary celebration, South Korea's President, Kim Dae Jung, suggested just that. If a mere 20 or 30 kilometers of missing railway track between South and North were restored, Kim observed, "you could board the train in Pusan or Mokpo, travel through China and the Maritime Province of Siberia and reach...
...binder and its owner are at the center of the action this week as President Clinton attempts to clinch a deal on peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. The summit is a high-stakes attempt by the departing American President to force a "full, fair and final" settlement of such explosive issues as the return of Palestinian refugees, boundaries of a Palestinian state and control of Jerusalem--in short, all the issues dividing the two sides. Along the arbored paths of Camp David, over meals of steak and salmon or in their private cabins, every foreign policy heavyweight...
...minister decided to remain at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, to see if they could reach an agreement that ended their 52-year-old conflict. An exhausted Bill Clinton flew to Okinawa early Thursday morning to keep his date with the G-8 economic summit, leaving Secretary of State Madeleine Albright behind to see if she could keep the two sides inching closer to an agreement until he returned this coming week...
...negotiations at Camp David have been grueling for Clinton, Arafat and Barak. For nine days, Clinton cajoled and pleaded with the two leaders. But progress had been so slow that he was ready to give up and fly to Okinawa, where he was already late for the G-8 summit. For seven months, Albright and her Mideast team had been shuttling to the region to persuade the two sides to move closer on the three critical issues that would have to be settled at a summit: the borders of a new Palestinian state, the number of Palestinian refugees who would...
...pack up too - and signaled to both men that he wasn't bluffing. By 10 p.m. Wednesday, he had his motorcade assembled outside his Camp David cabin to take him to Air Force One for the flight to Okinawa. He also had one of his spokesmen announce that "the summit has come to a conclusion without reaching an agreement." That jolted Arafat and Barak, who within an hour told Clinton they wanted to stay at Camp David with Albright and continue. "Nobody wanted to give up," a bleary-eyed Clinton told reporters before he boarded his jet early Thursday morning...