Word: summits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reluctantly agreed to postpone the worldwide Communist Party conference scheduled for next month. The reason was all too obvious: Moscow's treatment of Czechoslovakia had infuriated a large number of the prospective delegates. Only last spring, Soviet delegates had enough clout in Budapest to win approval of the summit. Now, led by the Italians, Dubček sympathizers threatened to put Moscow on trial at the summit-and the Kremlin was not ready to submit to that...
Russia would still like to hold the summit meeting, possibly next spring. The price may eventually be concessions in Czechoslovakia-including substantial troop withdrawals. Unless the Kremlin leaders are willing to pay that price, they may not find the Communist delegations in any better mood at the next preliminary meeting...
...expect to preside only about once in 100 years." But the beginning of this century's term was hardly encouraging. In the Secretary General's annual report, U Thant surveyed the unhappy world and, conceding the U.N.'s ineffectiveness, could only suggest an old-fashioned summit meeting of the U.S., Russia, Britain and France. That suggestion is not likely to be taken seriously either...
...Other Stories,* many of the particulars dissolve, leaving the author's metaphysical core standing alone. It is as Guimarāes Rosa intended. The book is his Tempest, the parting reverie, the mystical indulgence after the hurlyburly, the lightening of the load for a final assault on the summit...
...Rumania. On the theory that nothing unites reluctant allies like a good common enemy, Soviet leaders may also hope to heal some of the deep splits among Eastern European nations by sounding alarms about neo-Nazism in West Germany. With the first planning session for its long-sought Communist summit scheduled to begin this week in Budapest, the Kremlin needs every bit of support it can muster from fellow Communist countries...