Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This summit was no disaster. It is just a question of a President's priorities. Other things are more important...
Summitry has fed on itself. The idea of not having some kind of foreign spectacular at least every now and then makes a President nervous. And each summit must somehow top the last...
...board, the passengers and crew were hurled into chaos. "It was like riding the tail end of a snapping whip," said one passenger. Unbelted passengers, serving carts and dinner trays were flung into the air. "Everything went into a state of weightlessness," said John Ruffley, 51, a passenger from Summit, N.J. "Cocktail carts floated about the cabin along with people, plates, glasses and almost everything else. It was as if a mystic was at work. Then, when the plane pulled up [at 33,000 ft.], everything came crashing down...
...yield on all the renegades' points. But suddenly the deliberations hit a snag. One explanation is that the Soviet leadership is divided over concessions to the Western individualists and hence did not want them down on paper. Another guess is that the Soviets did not really want the summit conference after all because it might emphasize the disunity of the Communist movement...
...party in a series of other autonomous stands, notably a cautious defense of Nobel Peace Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov and a plea to the regimes of Eastern Europe to liberalize. Obviously, Italy's unorthodox approach to Communism was not conducive to smooth negotiations for a Communist summit...