Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told dozens of visiting U.S. Congressmen: "I am not preparing for war, I am preoccupied with peace." With the support of the Saudis, he healed a rift with Syria's President Hafez Assad that had been caused by the Syrian incursion into Lebanon last May. Prior to the summit meeting of Arab and African leaders in Cairo last month, he got Jordan's King Hussein to agree to federation with a still-to-be-formed Palestinian state. This week in Washington he will argue that the Arab world is basically united (or at least as united...
...begin to see themselves as objects to be sold. They cut off their feelings of affection, finally responding like objects rather than people." Some psychiatrists believe that children who pose in porn pictures are often unable to find sexual fulfillment as adults. Another danger, says Los Angeles Psychiatrist Roland Summit, "is that sexually abused children may become sexually abusing adults...
...timing could not be more awkward for the President. In early May, he will go to a seven-nation economic summit in London to argue, among other things, for free trade and lower tariff barriers. He must make a decision on shoe tariffs by April 9, and on sugar and color-TV imports one to two weeks after the summit. If the President acts to cut imports sharply, his free-trade evangelism in London will seem hollow or even hypocritical. If he ignores the protectionist pressures, his summit partners will be pleased, but Carter will face domestic protest...
...workers and factory owners are clamoring for a tariff that would reduce imports to their 1974 level. Makers of color TV sets are similarly demanding high tariffs that would keep out Japanese imports. The betting is that Carter will resist; he could hardly call for free trade at the summit right after caving in to protectionist pressure at home...
...Conserving Energy. On April 20, shortly before leaving for the summit, Carter is committed to announcing a "comprehensive" U.S. energy policy that will presumably call for tough conservation measures. He will probably ask his fellow heads of government to follow Washington's lead. One proposal being considered by the White House: to ask the other six for a pledge to cut their 1978 energy consumption by a set figure, perhaps 10%. Carter will run into some flak. The French, in particular, complain that the U.S.'s rising oil imports encourage the OPEC price boosts that hurt countries like...