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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13Name That Summit
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- From the "Spirit of Camp David" in 1959 to the "Seasick
- Summit" off Malta last year, pundits have pegged superpower
- parlaeys with catchy nicknames. Last week's Summit with No Name
- proved more difficult. Some attempts:
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- The Twin Peaks Summit. Columnist Mary McGrory wrote that the
- TV show, "wrapped in mists and mystery," provided the perfect
- moniker.
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- The Post-Copernican Summit. In recognition of diminished
- superpower influence, foreign policy mandarin Madeleine
- Albright invoked the astronomer who noted that the earth was
- not the center of the universe.
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- The Toughlove Summit. Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater used the
- name to stress that Bush would temper his admiration for
- Gorbachev's goals with stern talk on Lithuania and Germany.
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- The Final Summit. The Wall Street Journal has concluded that
- such mettings are rapidly becoming obsolete as Gorbachev loses
- his command of events at home.
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- The Do the Right Thing Summit. Drawing upon its knowledge
- of hip black symbols, the New Republic says Spike Lee's movie
- provides the theme: get Gorbachev to give in on key issues.
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