Word: summiteering
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...more carbon is streaming out of American smokestacks and tailpipes this year than in 1990. Last year Under Secretary of State Timothy Wirth surprised negotiators by pledging the U.S. would agree to meet future reductions by setting legally binding targets. These are supposed to be determined at a December summit in Kyoto, Japan. Now the White House is struggling to figure out what it can accept as a binding target--and sell to the Congress and industry--before a preliminary conference in Bonn later this month. Members of an interagency task force are "meeting every day," says Kathleen McGinty, head...
...Pfiesteria piscicida, which under certain circumstances turns toxic. Though the precise trigger remains unclear, suspicion has fallen on agricultural runoffs, particularly from the region's numerous chicken farms. In addition to closing waterways, Governor Parris Glendening has named a panel to investigate the runoff problem and has called a summit of Governors from surrounding states to consider regional solutions...
JERUSALEM: Reports of Yasser Arafat's imminent demise are almost surely exaggerated. Last Friday Israeli Television quoted "Western intelligence sources" saying that Arafat suffers from a "serious illness," and there were rumors that he fainted Sunday during a closed-door Arab summit meeting in Cairo. But TIME Jersusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer reports that few dispassionate observers believe the Palestinian leader is seriously ill. "His hands shake, and his lips tremble, and there is some reasonable speculation that he might have the very beginnings of Parkinson's disease," says Beyer...
...talking to at the moment. No one knows this better than JOHN TRAVOLTA, who plays the character based on Clinton in the upcoming film version of Primary Colors. In a conversation with TIME, Travolta described what happened when he met his real-life counterpart at the volunteerism summit in Philadelphia last April. "I hadn't felt the exact seduction everyone says they feel when they're around him, and I wondered when it was coming," Travolta recalled. "Then he said he wanted to help me with the Scientology situation in Germany." Travolta is a strong adherent of Scientology, which...
...capital of neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, which was Zaire until a few months ago. He was worried that Laurent Kabila, the rebel he helped to the country's presidency, was not making quick enough progress in restoring the ruined country. The meeting had all the ceremony of a summit, but it was really an opportunity for Museveni to give his friend some discreet but blunt advice. "They must start to move here," said Museveni afterward. "People expect to see things happening. Kabila wants to help his people, so that's half the battle won. We can help with...