Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the four-day summit convened last week, there were some inevitable absentees. Mauritania's President Moktar Ould Daddah, for instance, had been overthrown by a military coup shortly before he was supposed to leave for Nouakchott Airport to catch a plane to Khartoum. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, as usual, preferred to stay home, sending in his place a quarrelsome delegation that threw the sessions into an occasional uproar by picking fights with neighboring Chad. Nonetheless, 35 leaders of the OAU's 49 member states were on hand, the largest muster in the organization's history...
...summit Foreign Ministers' meeting called to whittle down the agenda and prepare positions, the Council of Ministers had hammered out a series of resolutions on the foreign intervention that one delegate aptly described as "mush." One resolution maintained that the defense of African states was the sole responsibility of the states themselves...
...high point of the session. Beyond their own bright promise of stronger African leadership, his statesmanlike words contrasted with the gaffes that too often in the past have soiled the image African leaders sought to project. There were, alas, still a few of those gaucheries at the 15th summit. Items...
...industrial democracies, the great peril is that they will fall into a new recession before most of them have fully recovered from the last one. Hoping to avoid such a tumble, the leaders of seven* nations have journeyed four times in the past three years to much-heralded economic summits, where they have issued ringing, sometimes even rambunctious, declarations about their resolve to cure ills. So far, they have been unable to solve the multiple problems of slow growth, threatening levels of inflation and high unemployment. Last week, as the leaders of the Seven returned home from the Bonn summit...
There was no doubt about who the teacher was. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, as host and chairman, ran the show with typical decisiveness. Said a top U.S. official: "The man is a born leader." Participating in his second economic summit, the U.S. President was not the dominant partner...