Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help the hard-pressed Soviet economy, Bush promised to waive the Jackson- Vanik Amendment, which restricts U.S.-Soviet trade, as soon as the Supreme Soviet concludes legislation permitting free emigration. For the interim, he proposed that the two nations negotiate a new trade treaty in time for the June summit. He also vowed to support observer status for the Soviet Union at the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) talks, a move long sought by the Soviets to help integrate the U.S.S.R. into the world economic system...
...toughest part of the President's message concerned Central America. Bush told Gorbachev: If the Nicaraguan Sandinistas have told you they are not supplying weapons to El Salvador's rebels, they are misleading you. He warned the Soviet leader not to miscalculate how seriously Washington regarded the escalating violence in Latin America...
Gorbachev seemed a bit stunned that Bush's overall proposals were so detailed and specific, not to mention numerous. After sitting silent during most of the lengthy presentation, the Soviet leader looked the President in the eye and told him, "I have heard you say that you want perestroika to succeed, but frankly I didn't know this. Now I know. Now I have something tangible...
...weeks before the Malta meeting, White House aides -- and Bush himself -- had been putting a damper on expectations. But the President was determined all the while to arrive with proposals that would interest the Soviets and encourage the success of their reforms without turning the meeting into a wholesale renegotiation of the postwar order. Such a deal would be futile in any case. At Yalta in 1945 the victorious Allies could draw lines at will upon war-ravaged Europe. Now the ability of both superpowers to dictate events has been sharply circumscribed...
...publish information on their military-force structure, budget and weapons production. He handed Gorbachev a list of possibilities for cooperation between the two nations, including advice on such classically capitalist institutions as banking systems and a stock market. "We're happy to pursue any of these issues with you," Bush said, beaming...