Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shultz said they decided he would visit Moscow Oct. 22-23 to set a date for the summit at which President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev will sign a pact eliminating the superpowers' shorter-and medium-range nuclear missiles...
Once again, the American people will be treated to that multimedia extravaganza inevitably billed--in the manner of a professional wrestling match--as a "Superpower Summit." The leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union will take advantage of numerous photo opportunities before heading to a small cottage for a brief meeting of the minds. They'd better bring some No Doz; summits have proven to be boring, uneventful and ultimately useless...
...summit can be something other than just a harmless "getting to know you" social event or a public signing. In 1961 Soviet leader Khrushchev left a stormy summit with Kennedy thinking the American leader was a vacillating and indecisive man. Many historians argue that this experience led Khrushchev to believe he could place missiles in Cuba without worrying about an American response. Indirectly, but yet importantly, the 1961 summit almost led to a nuclear...
Sometimes the Soviets have insisted on linking the various negotiations: no INF deal without a strategic offense-defense trade-off. At other times they have appeared willing not to link the issues, letting Reagan have an agreement and a summit without his having to make any concessions on SDI. Their current position is ambiguous -- and therefore flexible. Currently they are proposing an "INF-plus" summit. The plus would be a "framework agreement" on START and SDI -- not a full treaty, but an outline of its main provisions, notably including testing limits...
Begun's elderly mother and his wife Inna will also be allowed to leave, along with more than a dozen other Soviet Jews who have been campaigning for exit permits for years. Moscow's move is evidently intended to gain favor with the West in anticipation of a summit this fall between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev...