Word: summited
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Politics will taint everything this year. But Reagan should be at least an equal act in the grand finale, an act that could produce the INF treaty ratification, a Moscow summit, a new Supreme Court Justice, a ringing budget and free-trade debate and a firming attitude against terrorism...
...Reagan-Baker last-year plan succeeds, the President will go off into the history books looking remarkably like the man who came to Washington eight years earlier. To illustrate the point, Baker tells a story. "By Tuesday afternoon of the summit with Gorbachev, we were all worn out, and, to be honest, it had not gone all that well. Gorbachev was spewing facts all over the floor. The President was down. 'Howard,' he said, 'I had better hit the books tonight.' 'No,' I said, 'I wouldn't do that. Be Ronald Reagan. Remember who you are, what you believe...
...last week in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh to coordinate defense strategies. The six -- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates -- fear that they will be drawn ever more deeply into the conflict. Iran has already launched Chinese Silkworm missiles against Kuwait. At the summit's opening, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd said the Iranians were "pointing their arrows to our chests instead of helping us to liberate Jerusalem from Zionist domination. There is no reasonable justification for this other than the desire for expansion...
While still calling for a negotiated solution to the war, the summit communique accused Tehran of "prevaricating" over United Nations Resolution 598, which calls for a cease-fire between Iran and Iraq. The council demanded that the U.N. Security Council put into effect the arms embargo that the resolution provides for in the event of intransigence...
...verifying compliance with the current arms-control treaties. But some troublesome shortcomings remain. For one thing, future agreements will have to deal with mobile weapons and sea- launched cruise missiles, both of which are particularly difficult to monitor. Figures supplied by the Kremlin in connection with last month's summit revealed 84 Soviet ground-launched cruise missiles that the U.S. did not know existed...