Word: summits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last May's African "summit conference" in Addis Ababa, South Africa's neighbors called for an economic boycott, to include the banning of South African aircraft from airports and airspace. By last week an air curtain had closed African skies to South African Airways, whose proud symbol is a winged springbok, forcing its planes into a tortuous detour...
...Summit. According to probably deliberate conference leaks, Tito told Khrushchev that Russia must play up to the emerging Afro-Asian nations to halt increasing Chinese penetration. Added Tito: As long as China is not a member of the U.N. (both Russia and Yugoslavia favor Peking's admission, but with waning enthusiasm), Moscow could make headway by supporting the Afro-Asian drive for membership in the U.N. Security and Economic and Social councils. Tito also said that Russia is being too doctrinaire in writing off Afro-Asian countries such as Syria, Algeria, Egypt and Iraq, which have outlawed local Communist...
Tito and Khrushchev agreed to hold an anti-Chinese Communist summit conference soon, both to consolidate Russia's position in the conflict with China and to state formally that Chinese warmongering is far more harmful to world Communism than Yugoslavia's "revisionism." But Tito and his guest seemed to shy away from much closer relations. Tito ignored Khrushchev's apparent desire to address the Yugoslav parliament, and Russia cold-shouldered Yugoslavia's request for massive economic aid, granted Belgrade only observer status in Comecon, the satellites' more or less common market. "Differences still exist between...
...that bloody feud that led to the Apalachin summit meeting of Cosa Nostra higher-ups in November 1957. There the council approved Genovese's action, and he emerged as undisputed boss. For his part, Gambino inherited Anastasia's spot as a New York capo...
...incident causes the collapse of the summit disarmament conference in Paris...