Word: summited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that, the Iceland meeting stirs worry among some diplomatic experts, who believe summit meetings must be thoroughly prepared. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger insists that U.S.-Soviet tensions "cannot be removed by the personal relationship of two leaders, and it is not in our interest to create the impression that they can be." He adds, "This hurry-up presummit summit is a source of great concern to me." William Hyland, editor of Foreign Affairs, thinks the Iceland meeting is "dangerous" because diplomats are "escalating their disagreements to their bosses, and if their bosses disagree, the whole thing could blow...
...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 enough momentum to bring about a full-scale summit in a few months, the gamble will have been worth...
Indeed, the symbolic and political nature of the Euromissile issue has made it possible for both sides to edge toward a proposed compromise that will reduce INF arsenals to "token" forces of 100 warheads each. Such an agreement could provide a centerpiece for a full-fledged summit in the U.S. if Reagan and Gorbachev can iron out the remaining issues this weekend. Among them: the Soviets want only a short-term agreement in order to avoid being locked into a deal if modernization of the French and British independent arsenals commences in the next decade; the Americans want strict verification...
...that Nicholas Daniloff would quote lines of poetry to mark his release from Soviet imprisonment. Here was an incident that filled the news for a month, that brought the world's two titans into open confrontation, that in the end, perhaps, prodded them to agree on the presummit summit. Yet to cap off those momentous political events, Daniloff, the center of the storm, reached back into art for a poem by Mikhail Lermontov written almost 150 years ago for another world and circumstance. Grant that it was more diplomatic of Daniloff to quote Lermontov's exasperation with Mother Russia than...
...votes, Secretary of State George Shultz argued strongly that a congressional override of the sanctions veto would undercut Reagan's credibility at this weekend's meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Iceland. "To the best of my knowledge, South Africa has never been on the agenda for a summit," commented Lugar. "I think this will be seen as farfetched...