Word: summited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, Peres and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held a two-day summit in Alexandria, Egypt. They agreed Friday to form a preparatory committee for convening an international peace conference...
...government official, who demanded anonymity, said in Washington after the summit that the United States was cool to any plan that would include the Soviet Union in an international forum. Likud members of Peres' government also voiced opposition to an international meeting during yesterday's regular Cabinet meeting...
...ticklish drama could hardly have come at a more sensitive time for Soviet-American relations. Even as the controversy unfolded, Soviet officials were in Washington for talks that could pave the way for a second summit meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev later this year. Those discussions went ahead as scheduled, and plans are still under way for a meeting in Washington next week between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. But U.S. officials hinted last week that the Daniloff affair, if not resolved, could endanger the possibility of a summit...
...ahead with missile deployments that would violate SALT II. Though the pact was never ratified by the Senate, each side < had pledged to abide by the treaty as long as the other did. Breaching the SALT II limits, the Soviets have made clear, could mean no second summit...
...repudiate his earlier vow to forge ahead with missile deployment. The delay, unconfirmed by the White House, might not be a gambit at all. But news of the delay spilled to the public at a time when the superpowers seemed to have reached an impasse in pre-summit talks. The U.S. wants to discuss "regional issues," like Soviet policy toward Afghanistan, Central America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East, at a Reagan- Gorbachev meeting. The Soviets say they do not want a summit without some guarantee of progress on arms control. As the two sides emerged from private talks last...