Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such talk has angered British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who spent the day after Thanksgiving with the President at Camp David tutoring him on how to handle the Soviet leader, with whom she has met five times. Concerned that Cheney's announcement will weaken America's hand if the Malta talks take a substantive turn on arms control, Thatcher advised Bush, "Any surprise that you're presented with, you take it away and you consider it very, very carefully...
...will enhance relations between the two countries. He has sought advice from experts he has long trusted, such as Zbigniew Brzezinski and Richard Nixon, and from some about whom he has misgivings, like Jeane Kirkpatrick and Henry Kissinger. Bush hopes not only to impress Gorbachev with his understanding of Soviet problems but also to argue cogently about solutions. "It's one on one, and at stake is the world," said a senior Administration official. "He's a little nervous about it, and I think that's why he's working so hard to get ready...
Initially, Bush had hoped to invite Gorbachev to Camp David for a few days. There, alone and in private, he could test Gorbachev's mettle and get to know the Soviet leader personally, just as he had befriended hundreds of other foreign leaders in his career. After the Soviets opted for Malta, Bush told aides, "I want a Camp David atmosphere on that ship." To work his magic free of prying eyes and ears, he has ordered reporters to stay far from the U.S. cruiser Belknap and the Soviet cruiser Slava. "He wants to be able to get up from...
Never mind the Soviet economy, Mikhail Sergeyevich; what have you done to the spy-thriller industry? Now that the Berlin Wall has started coming down, cold warriors are not the only ones whose smiles must seem a trifle forced. Spy novelists, like Pentagon budgeteers, need the Wall to make their fictions believable. What's a secret agent to do now? Set up a kiosk and sell FREIHEIT T shirts...
...real world. Espionage will go on, of course, but presumably it will be of the corporate kind, waged among Japan, Korea and the European Community, which is apt to | include Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, what used to be called East Germany, and (as an associate member) what remains of the Soviet Union. Will thriller fans line up for tales of Samsung or Mitsubishi infiltrating Siemens A.G. and being foiled by plucky marketing execs...