Word: summits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some kind of Hindu nut," Kennedy says. Nehru breaks relations with the U.S., calling Kennedy a "racist," and Ambassador Galbraith a "beanpole." ...Cardinal Cushing wins the Irish sweepstakes and endows a home for old policemen. President Pusey calls Cushing "a great cardinal," and suggests that they hold an "ecumenical summit...
...what is on Khrushchev's mind. If Khrushchev sincerely wants to negotiate-and not just to generate propaganda-Macmillan said that the next step might be a meeting of the foreign ministers in late February or March to prepare the way for an eventual climb to the summit. President Kennedy readily agreed to the plan. A fervent believer in summitry, Macmillan would dearly like to attend a conference...
...Toward a Summit. At midweek, sensing the imminent U.N. offensive, Tshombe put out peace feelers. To President Kennedy went a direct personal plea that "as a free man and as a Christian," he name a conciliator and stop the fighting. Kennedy wired back his prompt agreement and nominated his ambassador in Leopoldville, Edmund Asbury Gullion, to take on the task. But the U.N. pressure would not be relaxed unless Tshombe produced hard evidence of sincerity-in other words, until he left Elisabethville and met with Adoula...
Last week's conference was the third of four regional gatherings at which lawyers of all nations are to lay the groundwork for a grand "summit" meeting of world law tentatively scheduled for New Delhi next year. Among other proposals of particular relevance to Africa, the Consensus of Lagos urged...
...chairmen met in a stormy summit session with hopes of unifying the efforts of the Houses in the HSA investigation. Four Houses had already set up fact-finding committees...