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...organized by British activist Sir Bob Geldof—are designed to put pressure the leaders of the G8 countries to increase aid, cancel debt, and deliver what Geldof calls “trade justice” to Africa, in advance of this month’s G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, where Africa tops the agenda...
...most famous cities - London, Madrid, Moscow, New York City and Paris - vying for the honor. Each city has launched a massive, multimillion-dollar marketing effort to get the Games. British Prime Minister Tony Blair will jet to Singapore for a last-minute charm offensive before opening the G-8 summit meeting in Scotland. The French team will screen a short film about Paris directed by filmmaker Luc Besson, and Spain's Queen Sofía and Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero will be on hand to lobby for Madrid. The winning city - you can count...
...curious about what brought this flat-out invitation to meet now," says Reagan. "He's concerned about the summit, I think. He wants to be sure that we have a summit that will produce something...
...logic of the American position eventually prevailed. The Glassboro meeting led to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). At a summit in Moscow in 1972, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed a pair of agreements embodying McNamara's recommendation to Kosygin at Glassboro: a treaty restricting antiballistic-missile defenses and an interim accord on offenses. The ABM treaty is still in force; the offensive agreement was replaced in 1979 by SALT II, which was never ratified and which expired last year but still serves as a check on the arsenals of the two sides while they try to negotiate...
...connection to the Americans shot down over Nicaragua. White House officials, who have insisted they did not deliberately mislead the public about U.S. intentions toward Libya, were embarrassed and miffed by Kalb's dramatic gesture. One White House aide was particularly irritated that he had quit just before the summit in Reykjavk, "when he knew full well we hadn't misled anyone on purpose. His timing could have been worse, but not much." Said Kalb, making light of such concern: "I suspect that I will dissolve very quickly under the impact of the meeting in Reykjav?...