Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Reagan and Gorbachev relied on the usual summit platitudes--talking of the coming of a new era of relations between their nations--the motives for these meetings were new. Both nations are superpowers, but their kind of power is no longer transcendent. They met to discuss arms, but what was really at stake was economic power. And both seem to be losing...
...spend his energy on reforms at home. As the meeting with Reagan drew nearer, Soviet leaders were preoccupied with an even more crucial domestic summit, the Communist Party Conference set for June 28. Last Thursday the Politburo decided to call a plenum of the 307-member Central Committee to discuss the party conference...
...There is nothing to discuss," snapped Karpov. "There is no common ground, no convergence. The important areas are those where we differ." The polemical tone continued for much of the round. On a number of occasions Karpov launched into philippics on the sins of the U.S. Tower would reply with low-key sarcasm, "Thank you, Victor. We subscribe completely to your characterization of the American position. Now let's get down to business...
...official level, the Soviets have shown no concern over the meeting planned between Reagan and Soviet refuseniks. At a press conference to discuss the forthcoming summit, U.S. affairs expert Georgy A. Arbatov and Communist Party Central Committee official Nikolai Shishlin both stated that they considered Reagan's meeting partners his own business...
...conceivable that we could finish the work on the treaty by Friday or Saturday," Byrd told reporters after a White House meeting with Reagan to discuss the May 29-June 2 summit-between the president and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev...