Word: summits
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Since then, 17,200 men from 21 countries have labored and eight companies have invested $220 million to turn Nimba's jagged 111-acre summit into a massive mine. Last week huge shovels scooped Nimba's soft ore into 32-ton Haulpaks, native drilling teams dotted the mountainside and a fully automated crushing plant ground out ore for shipment to a man-made harbor at Buchanan...
...whole, it was a strangely lackluster performance. Capitalizing on the test ban treaty, the one clear triumph for the government in a year of frustration, Butler pledged that Britain would press its allies to "keep up the momentum" of negotiation with the Russians, and hinted at a summit meeting...
...such matters Selassie is in a position to speak for much of Africa. His effective leadership as honorary president of the summit conference on African unity in Addis Ababa last May established his position as a moderate who might bridge the communications gap between the widely divergent African factions. In his own land his tight rule is controversial, but from a pragmatic U.S. point of view it has been effective. Ethiopia is fiscally sound, is one of the few nations to repay its lend-lease obligations in full. Selassie dispatched troops to U.N. combat in both Korea and the Congo...
When it came to proposals, all the Soviet delegate had to offer this time was the old idea of a summit conference on disarmament. This was moderate enough to bring applause from U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Gromyko reciprocated with deadpan applause for John Kennedy's address the next day. But to most of the delegates it seemed an auspicious beginning...
...long, hard walk," said Stew, and up he went casually clad in climbing pants, sports shirt and sweater. That was a bit skimpy for the hidden throes of Kilimanjaro-one seasoned mountaineer in the party collapsed from the altitude-but puffing and wheezing, Udall hauled himself onto the summit three days after starting. "It's something you do once and never again," he said. "The only exercise I've done this year is climb the Washington Monument...