51.   He said he had not been the only voice at the regional economic summit to call for action against speculators.

52.   He said he would return before a planned regional economic summit in November.

53.   He then will travel to U.N. headquarters in New York to brief the Security Council before attending a regional summit meeting on Central Africa in Nairobi, Kenya.

54.   He spoke to the radio station on return from an East African regional summit on Burundi held this week in neighboring Tanzania.

55.   His travels of recent years mainly have been to regional summits in Latin America and the Caribbean.

56.   Howard will be the first Australian leader in seven years to miss the regional summit.

57.   In regional summits around the country, delegates drafted a plan of action they would like to have folded into official U.S. policy toward Africa.

58.   Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes said Sunday that a proposed meeting between the leaders of India and Pakistan at an upcoming regional summit in Kazakhstan is not possible.

59.   It also threatened to cancel a regional economic summit scheduled for November.

60.   It said that further discussions would be held at an East African regional summit Wednesday in Arusha, Tanzania.