Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lonetree was originally arrested late last year in Vienna. Charges against Bracy were filed about three months later, shortly before Secretary of State George Shultz was scheduled to arrive in Moscow for arms-control and summit discussions. The spy charges cast a pall over the Shultz mission; some State Department officials say that was one reason the charges were so well publicized, perhaps even hyped. Says a senior U.S. diplomat: "There are forces of darkness, if you want to call them that, who oppose any kind of long-term improvement in U.S.-Soviet relations." Even Republican Congressman Richard Cheney...
...Soviets may be relishing the Iran-contra crisis, their interest is more strategic than voyeuristic. Reagan's current predicament, combined with Mikhail Gorbachev's success at consolidating his own power in the Politburo at his party plenum last month, has convinced many in Moscow that Reagan now needs a summit far more than Gorbachev. As a result, a wide spectrum of high-ranking Soviet officials are hinting that they may pounce on the opportunity to seek further U.S. arms- control concessions -- notably on Star Wars -- before setting a date for the two leaders to meet in Washington...
Only a few weeks ago, the foundation for a summit seemed to have been firmly established. The U.S. and the Soviet Union had agreed in principle on a plan to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear forces from Europe. This INF agreement, which would also include the elimination of shorter-range missiles, was to form the basis for a third meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev. But now the Soviets seem to be stalling. The Kremlin postponed a Washington meeting between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze that had been expected to take place last week. "The Soviet...
...central role in the Kremlin's thinking. Gorbachev has a history of performing deft flip-flops on whether to demand SDI restrictions as a condition for other arms-control agreements. A year ago, he indicated that an INF deal could be cut separately. That led to October's Reykjavik summit. There the Soviets proposed a package deal, including acceptance of Reagan's zero option on INF in Europe along with deep cuts in strategic weapons and restrictions on SDI. The deal fell apart because Reagan felt Gorbachev was going too far in trying to limit SDI. Subsequent polls in Western...
Last February Gorbachev reversed field again, proclaiming that he was willing to unlink an INF treaty from SDI. But now that such an agreement seems close and summit fever is rising, there are signs that the Soviets are preparing to relink SDI to the package -- and perhaps even attempt a repeat of their Reykjavik public relations sandbag...