Word: summit
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...book, Minus 148, about the first winter ascent of North America's highest peak, Mt. McKinley. (The title refers to the temperature Art and two other members of the expedition withstood when they were forced to wait out a windstorm for several days in an ice-cave near the summit. One member of the expedition died in a crevasse during the ascent; Art was lucky enough to return to Anchorage with the loss of only one toe to frostbite...
Meaty Bone. The Russians last week seemed to be trying to meet the conditions. On short notice, they brought together leaders of the Warsaw Pact nations in East Berlin for their third summit in a year. Plainly, the spur-of-the-moment powwow was designed chiefly to apply fraternal persuasion to East Germany's Walter Ulbricht to accept a Berlin agreement...
...communiqué that emerged from the secret summit indicated that old Walter's comrades were observing what one State Department official called "Lean-on-Ulbricht Day." It hailed the "great international significance" of West Germany's treaties with Moscow and Warsaw, which could only have galled the East German leader. It described Europe as a place "where the tendencies toward detente and all-embracing neighborly cooperation are increasingly emerging," which is not exactly how Ulbricht sees it. The communique also pointedly omitted any demand for immediate West German recognition of East Germany, calling instead for the establishment...
...Hasty Summit. Just about everyone of prominence in the East bloc was present in Budapest, with one highly significant exception: East Germany's Walter Ulbricht. He stayed in East Berlin to show his displeasure with his Communist comrades for cozying up to West Germany. Ulbricht's truancy brought a growing rift within the East bloc into public view for the first time...
...isolated West Berlin. One stumbling block may well be that the Russians are unable to induce Ulbricht to make concessions that would guarantee access between West Berlin and West Germany. In an effort to resolve the differences, the Communist leaders will meet this week in a hastily convened summit, which probably will be held in East Berlin...