Word: summits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nkrumah's main worry was a rebellion of another kind. To promote his sagging pretensions as Africa's leader, he has invited the heads of all African states to a giant pan-African summit conference in September-and is pouring more than $4,000,000 into a project called "Job 600," a complex of halls and theaters being built in Accra to accommodate the conference. But his reputation for subversion has put him in such bad odor that many moderate Africans now threaten to boycott the summit...
...Switzerland. Two days after 60 m.p.h. winds forced Bonatti and two friends to abandon a similar assault, he was back on the mountain, alone, inching up the ice-covered rock that leans slightly from the perpendicular (TIME, Feb. 26). It was four days before he finally staggered onto the summit, briefly embraced a wrought-iron cross, then started the descent to Zermatt and a hero's welcome...
...trip since Britain's Edward Whymper first succeeded in 1865 that the popular climbing routes are covered with pitons and footholds as easy to negotiate as a flight of steps. So easy, in fact, that a whimsical Englishman once won a bet that he could reach the summit without ever touching the mountain: he simply hired four guides and had them carry...
...Erhard really want to launch some kind of political organization among Europe's Six, as he had been saying for months? Fine, said De Gaulle: let the Foreign Ministers get together on it this spring, and then maybe the heads of state can have a summit about it in the fall. Did Erhard really need some new overture on German reunification for home consumption in this election year, 1965? Well, said De Gaulle, the best way is still the French way-increasing contacts with Eastern Europe. But if it's important, France understands, and by all means will...
...most important were aimed at an odd pair of bedfellows - Israel and West Germany. Following up plans decided on at the Arab Summit in Alex andria last September, the conferees agreed to push ahead toward cutting off Israel's water with the building of a pumping station on the Wazzani River, which flows through Lebanon and Syria into Israel. By a series of locks, tun nels and canals, the water is to be fed around Israel and into Jordan...