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From the "spirit of Camp David" in 1959 to the ::seasick summit" off Malta last year, pundits have pegged superpower parlaeys with catchy nicknames. Last week's Summit with No Name proved more difficult. Some attempts...
...assessment, President Bush and I have come to trust each other more since our discussions at Malta. Contacts that followed between the Kremlin and the White House support this conclusion...
...surface-to-air missiles would not reach El Salvador. What followed was an escalation of U.S.-Soviet tensions that threatened to undermine progress on arms control, Eastern Europe and other sensitive issues. Cables flew between Washington and Moscow. George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev had an acrimonious exchange at the Malta summit on Dec. 2. The growing superpower cooperation that seemed to mark the end of the cold war was fraying. But on the morning of Dec. 7, Moscow sent a flash message to the Vladimir Ilyich: "Return immediately to Leningrad...
Clever distancing could be admired, but Washington cared more about changing behavior. To press the issue, Baker telephoned Shevardnadze shortly after Malta. "We will have to have another very serious conversation with the Nicaraguans and Cubans, even though we just had a visit," said Shevardnadze, instructing his translator to emphasize very. Baker then sent an eyes-only cable to Shevardnadze listing "requests of the Soviet Union by the United States." Among them, he asked for a "Soviet commitment that all arms shipments from Nicaragua to the F.M.L.N. cease definitively and that no territory of Nicaragua be used by others...
...committee flat said I was doing drugs. Lincoln made a loan to Covenant House, and I waived one of the interest payments on the building which housed these poor kids, and the next thing I know I'm accused of funneling that money through the Knights of Malta, a high- placed Catholic society, to the Nicaraguan rebels to buy arms. This comes out of the Congress. You print everything that the Fed feeds you. The person they're talking about doesn't exist...