Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pentagon papers trial of Daniel Ellsberg surfaced! As a defense witness, Sorensen testified that he, like Ellsberg, had removed classified information without authorization. When Sorensen left the White House in 1964, he took along 67 boxes of documents, seven of them classified. Included were memos on the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit meeting in Vienna, the war in Laos, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban missile crisis. Sorensen used some of the material for his book Kennedy, then donated all of it to the Kennedy Library. He claimed a $231,000 tax deduction, part of which was rejected...
Like last summer, when he didn't notify Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon about his plans to invite heads of state for a summit conference at the Rockefellers' resort, he caught even statehood's advocates by surprise. So it seems unlikely that Ford simply meant to pay off Governor-elect Carlos Romero Barcelo, a statehooder and a closet Republican, for the convention votes Puerto Rican delegates gave him. A day or so after his pronunciamento, Romero's Washington commissioner Baltasar Corrada del Rio held a press conference to say that statehood now would be premature...
...secret petroleum deposits off the north shore of the island, or perhaps he made an empty offer as a gambit in the forthcoming debates over Puerto Rico in the United Nations Decolonization Committee. He gave good reason to suspect the latter when he used his arrival at the economic summit as an occasion for warning Cuba that the United States would never relinquish Puerto Rico. If we take him at his word, he acted out of sympathy with Puerto Rico's aspirations--no doubt, as he saw them through the manicured hedges of the Dorado Beach Hotel...
...Washington, President-elect Jimmy Carter said he was "deeply disturbed," although he did not mention the incident in a telephone conversation with Giscard about an economic summit. The State Department expressed its "strong conviction that terrorists should be dealt with sternly by legal authorities." The protest was rejected by the Quai d'Orsay as "inadmissible comment on the acts of French courts...
...Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev said that he would welcome a summit meeting with the new President provided that suitable progress was made between their two countries, apparently referring to arms control. Carter has already said that he would like to meet with Brezhnev if the Soviets showed a clear interest in easing world tensions...