Word: summits
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the host, grandly declared it a "full success." Well, not exactly. But by the standards of Third World conferences the first summit meeting of Arab and black African leaders was something of a hit -and a notable triumph for Sadat. There was a lot of predictable rhetoric attacking Zionism, apartheid, colonialism and imperialism. There was also an unexpectedly large concession to the Africans from the Arab oil states: a pledge of $1.45 billion in development...
...summit was both a ringing endorsement of the Spanish party's struggle for legalization and a significant event in the development of Western Europe's own brand of Communism. For years, Berlinguer and like-minded comrades have claimed that they are: 1) independent from Moscow and 2) devoted to the democratic process. The Madrid get-together was eagerly watched for signs of just how far the three leaders would dare to go toward those stated goals. As it turned out, not all that...
Inevitably, the litany of suffering recited by Ugandan refugees provokes the question: How will it all end? Some argue that Amin-who for security reasons may skip this week's summit meeting of African and Arab heads of state in Cairo-will surely be killed one day by some segment of his army or police force, if not by a lone assassin. But that would not necessarily mean the end of Uganda's troubles. The restive Christian majority might then be in a position to settle its own long list of scores and grievances. There could well...
...expelling the guerrillas from Jordan, the plucky little King (or P.L.K., as he is fondly known in some quarters) became an Arab pariah. Hussein was ignored at conferences, slighted when oil subsidies were handed out, finally humiliated at the Rabat summit of 1974, where he was stripped of the right to represent West Bank Palestinians (who still hold Jordanian citizenship) in future peace negotiations with Israel. Instead the Palestinians were given the right to negotiate over the status of Palestinian territory on the West Bank and in Gaza. Arafat meanwhile was lionized. He took his "guns and olive branch" liberation...
...Indeed, Summit Hill's Jerome Shea declared from his Hartford bar: "I've got hope for this guy-he doesn't have to get all dressed up like a dude. He did a great thing walking down the street...