Word: summiteering
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Even before this week's confrontation, there was a growing sense of urgency in the West that Yeltsin's reform campaign would fail without more foreign help. Clinton responded by scheduling a U.S.-Russian summit in Vancouver for April 3-4, promising innovative aid programs and calling for an emergency meeting of the Group of Seven industrial countries to map out broad-scale Western assistance. It all may be too late. "We have known since the time of Gorbachev that the Russians don't give a damn about the prestige of their leaders," says Gernot Erler, a senior German legislator...
Yeltsin was preparing for two events in April -- a summit meeting with Bill Clinton and a national referendum on whether Russians favored a parliamentary or presidential republic -- that he hoped would strengthen his hand against the opponents of change. Khasbulatov pre-empted him by calling in the 1,033- member Congress, a mainly naysaying group elected back in March 1990 when communism was still the power in the land. The parliamentary leader was determined to establish once and for all that the legislators, not the President, were constitutionally empowered to run the country...
...Yeltsin's resignation. A penchant for disappearing during major power struggles again raised public doubts about Yeltsin's health and political acumen. But the beleaguered President could take comfort in the week's only bright spot: an announcement that he and U.S. President Bill Clinton will hold their first summit on April 4. The meeting should provide some much needed luster to the besieged President's image...
...morning of Jan. 14, Stanley Williams, a U.S. volcanologist from Arizona State University, led a team of nine other scientists to the 13,680- ft. summit. Williams stayed on the rim and watched as two colleagues clambered down ropes toward the volcano's inner cone -- Nestor Garcia, a Colombian, to set up a temperature probe; Igor Menyailov, a Russian, to sample gases coming out of vents. Williams and Menyailov, who had taught himself English by listening to Elvis Presley records, had been friends since they first met in 1982 on a volcano watch in Nicaragua. "Igor was excited because...
...December the E.C., at its summit meeting in Edinburgh, expressed its outrage at "these acts of unspeakable brutality." So did the U.N. Security Council. The E.C. summit appointed a 12-member team, which found mass rape had been committed "in the context of expansionist strategy" -- that is, ethnic cleansing. The investigators reported that "daughters are often raped in front of parents, mothers in front of children, and wives in front of husbands." David Andrews, a member of the commission, who was at the time Ireland's Foreign Minister, said it was clear that rape had "become an instrument...