Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush and Gorbachev have agreed to meet in latespring or early summer to deal with major issues,and Bush said yesterday he still hopes to be ableto sign a treaty then to reduce strategic nuclearweapons...
...sources, insisting on anonymity, also said the most likely U.S. ship for the talks was the cruiser Belknap, the 547-foot long, missile-armed flagship of the Sixth Fleet, based in the Mediterranean. There was speculation Bush would make the ship his headquarters and spend the night there...
Officials said they did not know if first ladies Barbara Bush and Raisa Gorbachev would accompany their husbands...
...Bush said he decided to meet on a ship so "we can do it without too much fanfare...where there's a relatively few number of people, not a lot of crush of bodies out there and a chance to put our feet up and talk...I think it's easy logistically for both sides...
...will be Bush's first meeting as presidentwith Gorbachev, although he participated in talksin Washington and New York with the Soviet leaderwhile serving as Ronald Reagan's vice president...