Word: summits
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...more other European governments. It was a fitting tribute to the man who, more than any other, had shaped the destiny of postwar Europe. His death last week at 91 came at a time of change and unease within Europe and between Europe and the U.S., and the summit gathering for his funeral thus focused attention on one of his favorite approaches to trouble: whatever the disagreements, get together and talk...
...life, before he came down fatally with flu and bronchitis, Adenauer met with Chancellor Kiesinger and "urgently impressed on me," said Kiesinger, "this great concern of his life." He also wrote to De Gaulle in the same vein, well aware that the general was evincing reluctance to attend the summit meeting of Common Market leaders in Rome next month...
...traveled last week with Argentina's Juan Carlos Ongania to Buenos Aires for a twelve-hour personal visit. On his way home to Bogota, Colombia's Carlos Lleras Restrepo stopped over in La Paz to deliver a message to President René Barrientos, who had boycotted the summit meeting. Lleras brought word from Chile's Eduardo Frei that he was willing to discuss with Barrientos the possibility of granting Bolivia access to the sea. Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner plans to visit Ongania in Buenos Aires in July...
...questioner was Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peru's vigorous and imaginative president, and the person he was putting on during a lull in the Punta del Este summit conference last week was Jerry Hannifin, Latin America specialist in our Washington bureau. Hannifin, along with White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey and a team of other TIME reporters and photographers, was covering the inter-American gathering at Uruguay's seaside playground, a gathering described by President Frei of Chile as "the most important in hemisphere history...
...kept Johnson from mingling with Latin Americans and pressing the flesh, but he made up for that in his private sessions with the Presidents. His face burnished copper by the warm Uruguayan sun, he sat in a lounge chair on the lawn of his seaside villa and, between formal summit sessions, received a steady procession of Latin American leaders in arm-gripping, rib-punching, face-to-face talks. "I'm not here to say 'You do that and you do this,'" Johnson told the Presidents. "I'm just here to listen." When he did speak...