Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taking off his famous black eyepatch and donning dark glasses and a diplomat's Homburg hat. The Moroccan King has met before with other Israeli leaders: his last such secret téte-à-téte was six months ago, with former Premier Yitzhak Rabin. The Tangier summit was arranged because Hassan had a message for Dayan from King Khalid of Saudi Arabia, the bankroller of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The gist of the message, as conveyed by Hassan...
...optimism was premature. By week's end fete had turned into fiasco and joie into tristesse for the Communists. A long-awaited summit meeting of Socialist, Communist and Radical Party leaders was abruptly halted by a strident, embarrassingly public dispute over the common program-the parties' joint campaign platform for the March 1978 elections...
...outside the conference hall, Fabre shoved him aside and declared that "the French people are not prepared to sacrifice free enterprise and individual initiative to the extent the Communists would like." Marchais proposed that the Communists and Socialists continue the talks without Radical participation. The Socialists declined, and the summit was suspended...
...speed the lagging world recovery, the Carter Administration has consistently urged Japan and Germany to stimulate their economies so that they would buy more from other nations. The Germans have so far balked, but at the London economic summit in May, Japanese Premier Takeo Fukuda pledged to do what he could. His early measures were mild and ineffective; for example, unemployment has risen to 2.1% of the work force-low by U.S. standards, but the second highest rate in Japan since World...
...Ardeatine Caves" rocked Italy out of its holiday stupor like an earthquake. "An offense to the memory of all the victims of Nazi ferocity," declared the Christian Democrats' official daily, Il Popolo. Howled Milan's influential Corriere della Sera: "A humiliating scandal without redemption." A summit meeting between West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Italy's Premier Giulio Andreotti, scheduled for later in the week, was promptly postponed, and Rome's Communist-elected mayor Giulio Carlo Argan led a march in memory of Kap-pler's victims...