Word: summiteering
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Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney would have preferred to talk about the just adjourned economic summit, at which he had successfully acted as host in Toronto. But the journalists crowded around him in the city's convention center last week were far more interested in a report, aired moments earlier by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., that Canada had uncovered a major Soviet | espionage ring. Mulroney confirmed that six days earlier Ottawa had expelled eight Soviet diplomats and declared nine others persona non grata for "improper and unacceptable behavior." That was a euphemism for what proved...
Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita used last week's economic summit in Toronto to showcase Japan's growing involvement in global affairs. Takeshita unveiled a $50 billion foreign-aid package before the meeting that would make Tokyo the world's largest donor. Japan also announced a debt-relief program for Third World countries and agreed to phase out import quotas on oranges and beef...
...desire for a peaceful world that builds prosperity. What raises that commonplace above banality is the obvious sincerity behind it; repeated often enough, it could almost serve as an embryonic creed for modern Japan. Takeshita talks of creating an international furusato (hometown). Speaking in Chicago after last week's summit, he pledged Japan's cooperation in "helping to resolve and prevent conflicts" between nations and vowed that Japan would play an international role commensurate with its financial strength...
...statement was distributed in early June at the Arab summit in Algiers but was not widely discussed until it was published last week in the Arab press. "The means by which the Israelis want to achieve lasting peace and security is direct talks, with no attempt by any outside party to impose or veto a settlement," wrote Abu Sharif. "The Palestinians agree." The P.L.O. plea went on to give a qualified endorsement to United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338, which recognize Israel's right to exist within secure borders, and to state explicitly, perhaps for the first time, that...
Take Reagan's Moscow summit, which in all likelihood would have been a flop had it not been for a determined group of writers thumping away in the Old Executive Office Building. They provided the President with speeches that soared around the world, eloquent statements about freedom and democracy and glory of the individual. By the measure of the day, Chief Writer Tony Dolan, 39, along with Josh Gilder, 34, Peter Robinson, 31, Clark Judge, 40, and Mark Klugmann, 28, should have been out riding the bull market or selling their kiss-and-tell memoirs. Instead they were busy burnishing...