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That there was any meeting at all in Casablanca was a minor victory for some of the Arab moderates, notably Jordan's Hussein. Since 1982, Syria, Libya and the other absentee states have blocked efforts to hold any kind of Arab summit in order to avoid a public show of Arab differences...
...June Hussein and Arafat asked that a summit be convened, mainly to bring a halt to attacks on Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut by Syrian-backed Shi'ite Muslim Amal militiamen. Moreover, the two leaders saw an opportunity to win broader Arab support for their initiative...
...keynote word, "realistic." His immediate audience was the United Nations General Assembly, crammed with heads of state and government gathered to commemorate the U.N.'s founding four decades ago. But the wider audience was a world listening for clues as to what to expect from the President's summit meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva Nov. 19 and 20. Reagan's answer: "I look to a fresh start in the relationship of our two nations," but that cannot be accomplished by "averting our eyes from trouble." So the summiteers must address, as "a central issue in Geneva...
...effect, Reagan was using the U.N. as a forum to shift the emphasis of, and moderate expectations about, the much-awaited superpower summit. His message might be bluntly paraphrased: we are not going to let you focus entirely on control of nuclear weapons, Mr. Gorbachev. You have been milking that subject adroitly for propaganda advantage and arousing unrealistic hopes. But the arms race is not the only threat to peace; we insist on discussing the others, including those you would rather not hear about. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for instance. And, while we are at it, your behavior...
...speeches were the highlights of a week of intense jockeying by both the White House and the Kremlin to bolster their positions in advance of the summit. Shortly after his talk, Reagan convened a minisummit in New York with U.S. allies. He met for two hours after lunch, and again for two hours at dinner, with the government leaders of Canada, Britain, West Germany, Italy and Japan. He also held bilateral sessions with each of these leaders. (French President François Mitterrand boycotted the proceedings out of pique that he had not been consulted before the meetings were scheduled...