Despite French president Nicolas Sarkozy's mini-summit over the weekend with the leaders of Germany, Britain and Italy, it was every government for itself on Monday.

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It's probably safe to assume the topic of this mini-summit was how those states' delegates might be seated at the Democratic national convention and just whom they should represent.

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Yesterday, President George Bush held his hastily arranged mini-summit with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Helsinki, Finland -- a meeting whose intended purpose was to display U.S.-Soviet solidarity in the face of Iraqi aggression.

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He considered the California mini-summit time well-spent.

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