Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Kennan thinks that a summit conference would be worthless (TIME, Dec. 2), he believes that Western nations should begin to negotiate, at an ambassadorial level, some sort of deal in which the Soviets would pull their military forces out of the satellites in return for the neutralization and reunification of Germany...
...move, the leaders labored under a burden of expectations that was of their own making. Conceived hastily as a dramatic device for restoring Western morale in the face of Sputnik, the meeting had been called before anyone had concluded just what it could be dramatic about. "Unless the NATO summit meeting conference achieves something great, it will be a failure,'' declared West Germany's Trierischer Volksfreund, saying what most chiefs of government recognized. But calculated leakage of exactly what each nation would propose had robbed the conference in advance of much of its potential dramatic impact...
PARIS, Dec. 18--Atlantic Alliance leaders agreed unanimously today to gird Europe for push-button rocket warfare. This victory for President Eisenhower's strategy of nuclear stockpiles and medium-range missile bases in Britain and on the Continent was a NATO summit conference compromise...
PARIS, Dec. 17--The NATO summit conference today approved a guarded Western examination of the pitfalls and possibilities of direct talks with the Kremlin to reduce East-West tension...
PARIS, Dec. 16--President Eisenhower today offered America's European allies medium-range missiles and atomic warheads. The long, tense first closed session of the NATO summit conference then quickly split over how to deal with his proposition...