Word: chats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE HAVE been 11 summits since September 1959, when President Eisenhower and Nikita S. Khrushchev held a Camp David chat. Since, a few summits have centered on the signing of pre-arranged agreements, which conveniently leave summiteers nothing to discuss. In 1972, for instance, Nixon and Brezhnev signed the ABM treaty and in 1979 Carter and Brezhnev agreed to SALT II. Other summits, in 1959, 1967 and 1985, have not centered on anything...
...congressional congestion in Managua and vicinity has become particularly acute. No sooner had Robert Dole and four other Republican Senators checked out of the Nicaraguan capital last week, after some verbal sparring with President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, than Democratic Senator Tom Harkin checked in for a high-level chat. Meanwhile, Representative Jack Kemp and a delegation of 65 conservatives were traveling through Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica...
...both as children. Supper is served. The pyrotechnics go off without a hitch. Dorsey explains why Noah likes the cherry bombs: "He can feel their shock waves with his skin. It's as close as he ever gets to hearing." Late that night brother and sister have a desultory chat in Hugh's darkened house. Outside, clouds and sheet lightning raise the possibility of rain tomorrow...
...miles from Mbabane. Flanked by advisers, Mswati listens to local disputes and hands out royal counsel on property questions and other matters. He appears in public only on such national holidays as his birthday, April 19, and to receive state visitors. Britain's Prince Charles dropped by for a chat in March...
Meese explained his failure to take notes during meetings with many of the key figures in the scandal by claiming that he was engaging only in "casual conversations" and not trying to gain "great amounts of information." One such chat occurred at the home of Director of Central Intelligence William Casey, whom North has depicted as a sponsor of the diversion scheme, just hours after the incriminating memo was found. Meese insisted that he did not discuss the transfer of funds to the contras with Casey. The Attorney General described a laid-back talk about the diversion with Vice Admiral...