Word: summiteering
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...facing a problem familiar to that of moderate Republicans - making their voices heard above the extremist din in their own tent. President Clinton arrived in a Seattle under siege Wednesday, after police Tuesday imposed a curfew to curb the protests that disrupted the opening of the WTO summit. An impossibly broad coalition of activists - ranging from anarchists to environmentalists and the pillars of U.S. organized labor - have condemned the WTO as a forum of corporate interests with growing power to overrule national governments on such issues as protecting the environment and labor rights. Free trade advocates defend the organization...
...such as the trashing of a McDonald's outlet on Monday - threaten to disrupt and distort the underlying cautionary message being borne by the WTO's naysayers, the very scale of the street protests meant that it was anything but business as usual on Day 1 of the Seattle summit...
...good feeling when FIDEL CASTRO pulls you out of the game. The Cuban President, expanding his authoritative duties to include team manager, fiddled repeatedly with the lineup in a friendly baseball game against Venezuela last week following a summit between the two countries. Ever the prankster, Castro slowly replaced his starting team of retired players with ringers from the country's championship Pan Am Games squad. Venezuela's team was led by President Hugo Chavez, 45, a fellow revolutionary who took office in February after having spent time in prison following a failed 1992 military coup. Acting as starting pitcher...
...king of Spain was among Fidel Castro's guests at a summit attended by 14 Latin American and two European heads of state this week. What is the Spanish monarch's name...
Russia balked, walked and then signed - but kept on bombing the Chechens anyway. In a somewhat confusing sequence of events at a European security summit in Istanbul Thursday, President Boris Yeltsin tore into Western critics of Moscow's military campaign in Chechnya and walked out of a discussion with European leaders on the crisis, after which his foreign minister Igor Ivanov proceeded to sign documents that conceded to some Western concerns. The Charter for European Security upholds the principle that conflicts within one signatory state are the legitimate concern of all, which means Moscow signed away its argument that...