Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London summit, President Carter will try his hand at dealing with persistent ailments that are afflicting the world's economy: inflation, unemployment and destructive trade imbalances. To a great extent, the assembled leaders will be waiting to see how Carter proposes answers to this complex of pressing problems...
...hammered out in advance on how to stabilize the price of each commodity. In contrast, the developing countries want the fund set up before the mechanics are worked out. The dilemma will be just one of the problems that Jimmy Carter and his peers will struggle with at the summit...
...Last week, unable to get agreement on a single concept, Califano gave Carter four different approaches to the problem that were long on principle and short on detail. The President hopes to be able to choose one proposal, perhaps borrowing ideas from the others, before leaving for the London summit...
...Jimmy Carter propped for his trip to the London summit this week, he made sure he was primed not only on economics but also on the questions his European colleagues would be raising about the U.S. position on Arab-Israeli peace negotiations. Once the London talks were finished, Carter planned to do some direct Middle East business on the way home. In Geneva, he was due to meet Syrian President Hafez Assad, fresh from five days of talks in Moscow with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, another fellow who is anxious to play an important role in the Arab-Israeli...
...spread of Soviet influence on the Horn so distresses Arab leaders that four of them recently convened an extraordinary summit at Ta'iz, in the Yemen Arab Republic. The four included Numeiry and Somalia's Red-lining President Mohamed Siad Barre, the Marxist President of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and the leader of the Yemen Arab Republic. They set aside differing political views long enough to agree on a pan-Arabic, pro-Moslem program against Ethiopia. Meanwhile neighboring Saudi Arabia, which has been pushing aid to Somalia in hopes of wooing it away from...