Word: summited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fundamental disputes between the two nations scarcely lend themselves to bargaining. Human rights, regional conflicts and other such matters are often on summit agendas but rarely lead to solid deals. Arms control has thus become the coin of the realm for superpower diplomacy. Nuclear missiles, unsuitable for use as actual weapons of war, are deployed and manipulated as symbols of power, retaining only a vague connection to any possibility that their implied threat might ever be carried out. As such they can be traded easily, or at least more easily than other aspects of superpower conduct...
...with terrorists. Just as hotly, Paris denied the charge. In Washington and other allied capitals, uneasy questions were raised about what the French were up to. But the Reagan Administration, saddled with the Irangate scandal, was hardly in a position to castigate the French too harshly. At the E.C. summit meeting at Copenhagen, Chirac assured Thatcher that no ransom had been paid for hostages and no agreement made to sell arms to Iran...
...estimates that 400,000 Jews, out of a population of 1.8 million, would like to leave. To focus worldwide attention on Soviet human rights, a large Washington demonstration is being planned by a coalition of U.S. Jewish organizations for Sunday, the day before Mikhail Gorbachev will arrive for his summit with Ronald Reagan...
...President has called the Soviet dissidents the "unseen guests" at the summit, and his Administration has made human rights a crucial test of U.S.-Soviet relations. State Department officials note the surge in Jewish emigration and point with satisfaction to the even larger burst in Armenian emigration, which is expected to grow from fewer than 247 Armenians last year to more than 6,000 in 1987. By year's end an estimated 12,000 ethnic Germans will have been allowed to move to West Germany, vs. only 783 in 1986. In a pre-summit gesture of goodwill, Soviet officials told...
...September 1986, the Soviets once again began dangling the bait of an INF- only summit. They were, said Karpov, under instructions to take "practical steps" that would assure progress at a "meeting at the highest level." They were prepared to concentrate on the most promising area, which was INF, and, in Karpov's words, to leave START and SDI "off to one side, in hopes of making as much progress as possible on those at the summit itself." They proposed their own version of an interim solution: 100 INF warheads per side in Europe -- although with no Pershing...