Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rain started, but we were heading for four days in the clear summit sun of the Adirondacks so it didn't matter. After coffee and donuts in an awakening town we wove through New Hampshire and Vermont, colors blazing about us, a steady stream of roadside red breaking to reveal soft-colored hills, lone magnificent hardwoods and occasional white church steeples. We cut across New York state at the foot of Champlain and as we rose into the mountains the road narrowed and twisted; we had trouble taking the turns as our excitement grew...
Ford denies that he has not given sufficient priority to U.S. relations with its allies. He points to the kind of intimate consultation on economic matters that went on at the summit meetings at Rambouillet, France, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, when he met with the leaders of Western Europe and Japan...
...Lebanon. In Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, six Arab leaders who are most deeply concerned with the war met at the invitation-or command, considering the weight of his oil subsidies to other Arab nations-of the Saudis' King Khalid. At the end of the two-day summit, the six-Khalid, Sheik Sabah as Salim as-Sabah of Kuwait, the Presidents of Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, and Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat-had hammered out an agreement that will strengthen Syria's hand as a peacemaker in Lebanon and drastically reduce the fighting power of the hapless Palestinians...
...first problem faced by the Riyadh summit was not the civil war but the running feud between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syria's President Hafez Assad. Their squabbling had seriously hurt chances for peace in Lebanon, since the Egyptians have posed as protectors of the Palestinians while Syrian forces have ended up fighting them. At the urging of other Arab leaders, Assad agreed to stop the flow of "negative propaganda" about Egypt from Damascus, which for months has criticized Sadat for signing Sinai accords with Israel. Sadat agreed to recognize Damascus' right to a kind of neighborly...
...hardly coincidental that the Syrian attack took place on the eve of an Arab summit conference scheduled for this week in Cairo. Syria's President Hafez Assad, who wants to impose a settlement that will suppress Palestinian guerrilla activity and assure Syrian influence throughout the region, refused to attend any such meeting. Then, under pressure from Saudi Arabia, Assad agreed to confer with Arab leaders gathered over the weekend at the Saudi capital of Riyadh. After the talking was over, the prospect was that Syria would continue to push its offensive...