Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite those notes of caution, one Soviet official said he believed that at last week's visit to Moscow by Secretary of State George Shultz, groundwork was laid for a summit meeting this year between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
Washington was aware of the problem: White House sources say the issue has been raised repeatedly in recent years. Before the Geneva summit in November 1985, the senior White House staff received a National Security Council briefing on the Soviet Union's techniques for electronic surveillance and, for what is a prudish culture, its blatant use of sexual entrapment. The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board has issued at least three reports on the subject and personally briefed Reagan last spring on the vulnerability of the Moscow embassy. But all these initiatives died, White House aides contend, amid bureaucratic sluggishness...
When John Kennedy came back from his Vienna summit with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 he was full of stories about the Soviets' possible intrigue, from smuggling a small atom bomb into the attic of their Washington embassy to monitoring his calls from the White House. How should the U.S. counter it? Kennedy was asked. Go into a protective cocoon? No, he replied, if we did that we would soon be like them. There probably was no answer, he insisted, until the Soviets changed...
...that summit, as Hyland relates in his new book Mortal Rivals (Random House; $19.95), that the Soviets offered the Americans a special safe for their secret papers, assuring the visitors it was a reliable model. The Americans for once said no. But some of the veterans of that diplomatic foray now wonder if the offer, such an apparent snare, was not really a kind of high-level gesture of hospitality. Soviets spy on Soviets more than on Americans. And since the Soviets wanted the meeting to be a success, the top apparatchiks may have been trying to shield their visitors...
...they might. As the President attested during his summit meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, the U.S. and its largest trading partner appear close to a historic juncture in their immense economic relationship (value of 1986 commerce: $129 billion). After a year of negotiation, officials in Washington and Ottawa seem confident they can produce a draft agreement by autumn that will completely eliminate tariff barriers between the two countries over the next decade or so. Reagan also took a modest -- for most Canadians, far too modest -- step toward alleviating another deep Canadian concern. The President said he would "consider...