Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good for us to be run out of town." The Administration's priority, he told the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, is the "pursuit of verifiable and stabilizing arms reduction." The President even repeated his invitation to Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to come to the U.S. for a summit: "The welcome mat is still...
...officials responsible for protocol can be thankful that state visits like Chirac's can be undertaken by either the Premier or the President -- alone. Under the unwritten rules of cohabitation, more elaborate occasions, like last year's Western economic summit in Tokyo, require the presence of both Chirac and Mitterrand. Though each scrupulously observes the courtesies due the other's office, both expect to be received in equally grand style. They usually travel aboard separate aircraft, hold separate meetings with foreign leaders and are prickly about details, right down to the seating arrangements at banquets. The two leaders have learned...
Following Bracy's arrest, the case rapidly spiraled into a spy scandal of major proportions. "It's a biggie," said one White House official. "A real biggie." Soviet penetration of embassy communications has been so extensive, officials fear, that U.S. negotiating positions were compromised before the Reykjavik summit last October. The security damage has also seriously hampered preparations for Secretary of State George Shultz's trip to Moscow April 13 -- and could cast a pall over prospects for a summit this year...
...retrospect, the security breach seems to explain some of the Soviets' recent diplomatic behavior. During last fall's summit in Iceland, U.S. negotiators were disturbed by the Soviets' uncannily well-prepared responses to U.S. points. "We thought at the time that they were remarkably sophisticated in anticipating our positions," says a State Department official. Now, says another, the U.S. realizes that throughout Reykjavik, "we played poker with the Soviets, and they were looking at a mirror over our shoulders." Government sources are equally convinced that the Soviets had inside information last August during the crisis surrounding the Kremlin's arrest...
...details. While the arms talks showed such progress last week that Yuli Vorontsov, the chief Soviet negotiator, predicted that an agreement could be reached by summer, it is still to be seen whether the momentum can be sustained. Both Gorbachev and Reagan would certainly like to hold a successful summit later this year -- maybe even one at which they exchange pens after initialing an arms-control agreement. But a lot of tough bargaining will have to take place before anyone can pull...