Aware of that problem, Apple executives worked with the publishers in late 2009 and early 2010 to give them "assurances of solidarity, " the U.S. suit alleges.
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.
Should that occur, we would stand ready to provide solidarity and full public relations support, including four-color brochures to be handed out at ensuing U.N.