Word: summiteering
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...German unification barrels down the express track, one thing might slow it: Moscow's ever louder refusal to countenance one Germany in NATO. Last week's summit underscored the Soviet Union's deep wariness of its former enemy and its difficulty digesting the fact that East Germans will wind up in the Western military alliance. At the same time, Washington and Bonn agree that the unified Germany must remain firmly entrenched in NATO...
American officials caution that money alone will not allay Moscow's anxieties. At the summit the Soviets repeated their call for a replacement for both NATO and the Warsaw Pact: a vaguely defined "Greater European Council," which would be part of the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Said Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov: "We want a united Germany to be integrated into an all-European system...
...Arabic word saddam means "one who confronts." From the start of the three-day Arab summit in Baghdad last week, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein lived up to his name. Playing shrewdly on the frustration of Arabs exasperated by the bloody stalemate with Israel, Saddam set the aggressive tone in his opening address: "We should state clearly that if Israel commits aggression and attacks, we will strike back with great force. If Israel uses weapons of total destruction against our nation, we will use whatever weapons of total destruction we have against...
From the "spirit of Camp David" in 1959 to the ::seasick summit" off Malta last year, pundits have pegged superpower parlaeys with catchy nicknames. Last week's Summit with No Name proved more difficult. Some attempts...
...Twin Peaks Summit. Columnist Mary McGrory wrote that the TV show, "wrapped in mists and mystery," provided the perfect moniker...