Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hammer out a technical agreement on the date, duration, agenda and procedures of a larger session in Belgrade next October. There the U.S., the Soviet Union, Canada and 32 European states are to discuss how the signatories have complied with the 1975 CSCE accords proclaimed at the Helsinki summit...
...Northern offer had been worked out at the London summit in May and was partly an outcome of Jimmy Carter's promise to "reduce the chasm between the world's rich and poor." An important ingredient had been an increased willingness to help on the part of West Germany. The offer included a $1 billion special fund to help the poorest nations meet their bills for oil, other imports and interest, as well as an agreement to set up a common fund that would stabilize prices of certain commodities-a proposal intended to protect the Third World from...
...first step in breaking up the ruling hierarchy. Also dismissed last week was Konstantin Katushev, 49, once the youngest member of the powerful Secretariat of the Central Committee, who was believed to be on a meteoric rise. Katushev apparently lost favor for having organized last June's summit meeting of Europe's Communist parties, at which several party bosses flaunted their independence from Moscow. His replacement is Konstantin Rusakov, 68, a Brezhnev protégé with long experience in Eastern Europe who may have better luck in dealing with Moscow's wandering comrades in the Communist...
...political unrest that goes with it-now faces the world's industrialized democracies, adding to an already unnerving brew of mounting inflation, trade imbalances and looming energy shortages. So grave has the problem become that seven major world leaders, including President Jimmy Carter, resolved at the London economic summit to "exchange experience and ideas" on youth joblessness, a formal recognition that the issue has got too big for any one nation to handle...
...Fred Catherwood, chairman of the British Overseas Trade Board, candidly admitted last week that "in one-third of our markets, bribery is a way of life." Nonetheless, the Daily Mail's story could hardly have come at a more awkward time. Only two weeks ago, at the London summit, British officials joined representatives from the U.S. and other countries in solemnly pledging to help stamp out the very practices with which British Leyland is charged...