Word: summiteers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bomb exploded before dawn Tuesday in Trujillo, a northern city where five Latin American foreign ministers were meeting to prepare the agenda for a summit of the Group of Eight countries that begins today...
...Threshold Test Ban treaty, signed in 1974 but never ratified, provides for a ceiling of 150 kilotons on underground nuclear blasts -- a limit that both nations currently observe. Baker and Shevardnadze agreed in principle on verification procedures that should allow the treaty to be completed at next year's summit. Yet nuclear testing will remain contentious: the Soviets still want a comprehensive ban on all underground blasts; the U.S. insists that nuclear weapons must continue to be tested for safety and reliability...
...sliding down the slippery slope of psychological disarmament. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, for one, is determined to stonewall arms treaties until congressional funding of his defense budget is ensured. And although Bush allowed last week that a strategic-arms treaty could be achieved by next year's summit, key White House aides seem inclined to dismiss START as a bothersome holdover from the Reagan Administration...
EDUCATION: The Charlottesville summit...
...want to know what painting is or can be, look at Velazquez. This has been the judgment of artists for the past 300 years. It is as though Velazquez has never been seen as anything but the summit of excellence in art, embodying a degree of intelligence, pictorial skill and lucidity of realization that defy not only imitation but, in some final way, analysis itself. He is to realism what Piero della Francesca is to abstraction. First Edouard Manet and then a whole succession of French painters from the 19th century into the 20th (not to mention English and American...