Word: summiteering
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Baker's resignation has enhanced the fin de regime feeling that has hung over the White House since the Moscow summit. With no major battles left to be fought, no treaties to be ratified, no important goals that could realistically be achieved, the Administration seems to be biding its time. James Reichley, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, feels the Administration is in a "tidying-up phase." Says Reichley: "The White House is in an even more defensive mode than at this time last year. They're being careful to prevent things from happening that they don't want...
...biggest challenge facing Duberstein may be finding something exciting to do. Reagan's agenda for his final months in office is hardly the stuff to send an overachiever's blood racing: preparing for the economic summit in Toronto this week, leading a virtually hopeless drive to win more funds for the Nicaraguan contras, working to revise the trade bill, pushing for stringent work requirements in the new welfare-reform legislation, campaigning for Bush. While Duberstein tries to generate enthusiasm in his staff, some observers expect a rash of White House resignations this summer. "I wouldn't want to be here...
...almost normal, a place with problems and foibles much like any other nation, a country that has ethnic protests, rock concerts, train wrecks, church services, strikes, scandals and beauty contests, not to mention pizza, pollution, late-night television talk shows and a First Lady. After the congenial Reagan-Gorbachev summit, the country paused for the millennium celebrations of the Russian Orthodox Church. Unthinkable under the old order...
...second time in a month, Ronald Reagan is heading for a summit. This time the main topic will not be world peace and how to preserve it but a more immediate challenge: how to ensure the stability and prosperity of the global economy. The President will travel to Toronto on June 19 for the annual economic summit with the other leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized nations: Britain's Margaret Thatcher, Japan's Noboru Takeshita, West Germany's Helmut Kohl, France's Franois Mitterrand, Italy's Ciriaco De Mita and the host, Canada's Brian Mulroney. Inside the Metro...
...have agreed that substantial debt relief is vital to the resumption of strong growth in the developing world and the creation of viable markets for our exports in the future. Accordingly, we will follow the example of France, which prior to the summit announced that it was canceling one-third of the debt owed to it by the "poorest countries," many of them former French colonies. For developing countries in general, we will forgive at least 20% of the debt owed to our governments. We will work toward a similar cancellation of private bank loans, offering tax incentives so that...