Word: summiteering
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...will we know if the high-stakes, roll-of-the-dice Israeli-Palestinian summit called by President Clinton has succeeded? There is only one criterion for success: finality. Whatever document emerges, it must contain words like these: "The parties agree that the century-old conflict between the Jews and Arabs of Palestine is over...
...Welcome to the daily press blackout." That's how State Department spokesman Richard Boucher began one of his non-briefings to the dwindling press corps in Thurmont, Md., trying to "cover" the Middle East peace talks. Although there were a fair amount of doings outside the summit - some speechifying by President Clinton, some high drama involving the arrival of semi-official Palestinians and Israelis seeking entrance to Camp David - info security remained remarkably tight...
...With the trade in "blood diamonds" on the agenda of the G8 summit later this month, De Beers is moving quickly to rebrand itself as a concerned corporate citizen of the world. Still, the company may struggle to contain the market backlash that could result from diamonds' being associated with brutality in Africa. De Beer's spokesman Andy Lamont, speaking in London, sounded a defensive note when pressed on industry responsibility for financing insurgencies. "Diamonds don't kill people," said Lamont. "People kill people." Shopworn NRA slogans won't necessarily mollify a potentially fickle market - De Beers may do better...
...Israeli leader still believes he could sell a final deal to his voters over the heads of their elected representatives in a referendum, but he's going into the summit looking over his right shoulder, and that bodes ill for the prospects of actually achieving an agreement. Because although the ailing septuagenarian Yasser Arafat may be the effective president-for-life of the Palestinians, concern over his own legacy - particularly the fear of being remembered as a traitor rather than a savior - has him going to Washington looking over his left shoulder. He even invited members of two left-wing...
...Throw into the mix a U.S. president who, both men know, will soon lose control over the diplomatic and financial levers that have enticed and cajoled them this far, and the chances of this Camp David summit achieving the sort of historic breakthrough as Jimmy Carter's 1978 confab with Israeli and Palestinian leaders are increasingly remote. President Clinton may have chosen the venue in the hope that the historical precedent would weigh on the minds of his guests, but unfortunately for him its outcome will invite comparison, too. And the U.S. president may be about to learn that...