Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told Carlucci that Chancellor Helmut Kohl was about to announce plans to retire 72 aging Pershing IA missiles tipped with American nuclear warheads. At a stroke, one of the chief obstacles to a long-awaited Soviet-American agreement on intermediate-range nuclear forces seemed to dissolve, and a Washington summit between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev again loomed likely for this fall. Despite a flurry of official denials, reports from Moscow claimed ; that the Soviet leader was freeing up the last week in October for such a trip...
...both sides seem eager to reach an INF accord before Reagan leaves office. Optimists were encouraged by two developments last week. One was the announcement that the much delayed meeting between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, widely seen as a prelude to a summit in the U.S. later this year, will begin on Sept. 15. The other was the upbeat tone struck by Kenneth Adelman when he announced his resignation as director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Said Adelman, a skeptical critic of many arms-control proposals: "I want to leave...
...weeks the Reagan Administration has been complaining that Soviet foot dragging at the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) talks in Geneva reduced the odds for an agreement and for a U.S.-Soviet summit before the end of the year. But last week, in the latest in a series of unpredictable diplomatic maneuvers that began at the Reykjavik summit, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev made another surprise shift on arms control that could get the stagnant talks moving -- and reap new propaganda victories for the Kremlin...
...Washington, the White House reacted positively to the new Soviet stance, saying it improved chances for the signing of a major arms control treaty and a superpower summit in coming months...
...After this treaty is agreed to and initialed," he said, "then there will be a possibility to sign it at a summit level...