Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only seven weeks earlier, Cairo had been shaken by two days of rioting over rising food prices. Last week's summit, however, took place without a hitch in security. The Kings, Sheiks, Emirs, Presidents and other chieftains (or their stand-ins) from 59 nations, plus leaders of the P.L.O. and several African liberation groups, were quartered in the city's main hotels. From the Nile Hilton, they could walk across a huge red carpet to the Arab Socialist Union auditorium next door. Battalions of black-bereted Egyptian police lined the roads, ringed the official buildings, and even guarded...
...delegates agreed to set up the nucleus of a permanent Afro-Arab organization and to hold a summit conference again in 1980. Both Uganda and Sudan offered their capitals as the site. Amin's Kampala is not quite what the Afro-Arabs had in mind. But, as one Arab League official put it, "a lot can happen in three years...
...rich Arab states if they do not soften their position. Wearing his usual cartridge belt and revolver, an unshaven Arafat outlined his opinions in an interview with TIME'S Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart and Correspondent Wilton Wynn in Beirut before taking off for the Afro-Arab summit in Cairo. Excerpts from the interview...
...economic advisers noted for international expertise (Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, Under Secretary of State Richard Cooper, Assistant Treasury Secretary Fred Bergsten). As further evidence of his commitment to international economic cooperation, Carter last week announced that his first presidential trip abroad will be to attend a seven-nation* economic summit scheduled for May 7-8 in London...
...official agenda has been drawn up for the London summit. But when the leaders gather round the mahogany table in the State Dining Room at No. 10 Downing Street, the conversation seems certain to center on these topics...