Word: nonsummit
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Although Petersen met with Thatcher right on the heels of the "nonsummit summit" in Iceland, she still spent a full hour talking about business with him, he said...
While that may be too pessimistic, the nonsummit, or presummit or whatever, is indeed a risk. American Presidents and Soviet leaders have generally met in the past only after their diplomats had worked out agreements, however minor or ephemeral, for them to formalize. But Reagan and Gorbachev are conferring precisely because their subordinates have not been able to agree, in the hope they can pull off a kind of joint end run around their own diplomatic machineries. Even if all they can do is give the negotiating process a slight personal impetus -- or "impulse," as Gorbachev put it -- and produce...
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