Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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White House advisers are referring to this week's seven-nation conference in London as the "Downing Street summit." The phrase has a reassuring ring, evoking images of leather upholstery, briar pipes, glasses of sherry, and urbane diplomats about to decide the fate of the world without undue interference from press or public. Those days are long gone, of course, but Jimmy Carter is taking a kind of subdued, 19th century approach to his two-day meeting with the leaders of Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada. He plans to listen and learn, and not press...
...summit will take place in quarters fit for kings. Prime Minister James Callaghan refurbished the second-floor dining room at 10 Downing Street at a cost of $73,000. Air conditioning was installed and six temporary translation booths set up. The men will negotiate in a realm of gold-gold carpet, gold brocade draperies, gold-framed portraits of Lord Nelson and William Pitt gazing imperiously down on more circumscribed statesmen...
...report on the economic outlook for 24 non-Communist industrial nations; it predicts an average annual 4% economic-growth rate along with an 8% consumer-price rise in 1977. Carter also read specially prepared biographies of the leaders he is about to meet, plus summaries of the 1975 summit at Rambouillet, France, and the 1976 sequel in Puerto Rico. Over the weekend at Camp David, he digested two briefing books assembled by Brzezinski with help from the State, Treasury and Defense departments and Special Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss. One book dealt with the Downing Street conference, the other with...
...history of summit conferences makes depressing reading. High hopes tend to be followed by inevitable letdowns. This week's reduced expectations at least forestall disappointment...
...began to test the monster nuclear weapons that nobody thought they had. Our planes in the Berlin air corridor were buzzed; the autobahns were blocked. Insurgents consumed large chunks of Laos. The Bay of Pigs adventure was a disaster. Nikita Khrushchev pounded the table at the Vienna summit. The East Germans put up the Berlin Wall...