Word: summiteering
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...loggers or environmentalists have ever seen the elusive spotted owl. They know it as either a costly subject of litigation or a rare distillation of the forest spirit. But on the summit of a steep ravine in Douglas County, a pair of spotted owls assert themselves, as if to prove they are more than a mere abstraction. Nesting in the cavity of a broken-topped fir, they scan for prey and ponder the rare two-legged observer far below. Their gentle mewing ! gives way to a distinctive four-note hoot: "who-who, who-who." The male drops down...
...Other legislators who have no nostalgia for the cold war nonetheless think Bush has tied U.S. policy too closely to Gorbachev's political survival, and thus made concessions unwarranted by Soviet weakness. Bush invited such criticism by linking Lithuania and trade relations in May, then unlinking them at the summit without getting Soviet concessions in return...
Since the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Americans have dreamed of dancing on Fidel Castro's grave. They believe in their bones that nothing good will come in Cuba while Castro lives. But all that may soon be history. A week before the Bush-Gorbachev summit, a meeting of far greater significance for Latin America took place in Miami. For the first time in public, Soviet diplomats (including Yuri Pavlov, the Kremlin's leading Latinist) met with Cuban-American leaders. "We are accommodating political reality," says a Soviet official. "Bush will remain hostile toward Castro until the Cuban-American community blesses...
...Washington the sense of urgency is less impressive. Last week the bipartisan budget summit involving congressional negotiators and White House aides resumed just two days after the California vote. But the summiteers are far from reaching an agreement on a mix of spending cuts and new revenues that will hold the 1991 deficit to the $64 billion mandated by the Gramm-Rudman- Hollings law. They are even talking of putting off a budget agreement -- and the announcement of new "revenue enhancements" that it might entail -- until a lame-duck session of Congress begins, conveniently, after the November elections. "The tough...
...send him out on the road far more often: at least three times a month. Whenever he is away, Pauley will serve as "sub-anchor." Says Nightly News executive producer Steve Friedman: "Tom will be at the People's Congress in Moscow in July and then the NATO summit in London, but he'll be doing more than the big news on the road. We'll be trying to find the not-so-obvious things...