Word: summiteering
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Yasser Arafat had ordered his Challenger executive jet revved up to take him home. Ehud Barak told aides to begin drafting a statement he would deliver by himself to give his spin on why the summit had collapsed. Bill Clinton was mulling some type of communiqu? to be issued by the three men that would try to put the best face on a diplomatic disaster...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68--who compared the secret nature of the search to the ongoing Middle East peace summit--says the secrecy will allow the search to be more productive...
...summit opened Friday in Okinawa. And after reading the newspaper headline, "G-77 frustrated with G-8 inaction on debt relief," it became readily apparent that you won't exactly impress friends or chat up that attractive account executive at the weekend barbecue recounting the drama of the summit, no matter how many hundreds of millions of dollars the Japanese government is spending on this annual ritual. Instead, I offer the following tidbits that should be immediately inserted into conversation as soon as there is even the slightest hint of any summit talk...
...Arafat resisted the summit precisely because he resists finality. His strategy has always been to keep the conflict open. Why? Because when the conflict ends, his people must be satisfied with half a loaf. And while Israeli leaders have long prepared their people for serious concessions, Arafat has not. He has not moderated his demands one iota in seven years. Indeed, he keeps inflaming his people with visions of a return to all of Palestine--including Israel...
...inaction by the U.S. responsible for the massacre of up to 800,000 Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994? At a summit meeting opening Monday in Togo, the ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY is expected to request reparations from the U.S. and other members of the U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL for failing to stop the slaughter. The demands are fueled by a 318-page report, Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide, commissioned by the OAU and released on Friday. The report charges that Washington had full knowledge of the genocide but "repeatedly and deliberately undermined all attempts to strengthen the U.N. military presence in Rwanda...