Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hearings on Iranscam get under way next month and Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh prepares possible indictments against former White House officials, the Administration could be hard pressed to find a subject that will compete for the public's attention. An arms treaty with the Soviet Union, signed at a summit conference in the U.S. with Gorbachev, undoubtedly represents Reagan's best opportunity to surmount his difficulties and crown his tenure in the White House...
...vulnerable to an attack from G.O.P. conservatives if they get too cozy with the Democrats. New York Republican Jack Kemp, who hopes to carry the conservative banner to the G.O.P. presidential nomination next year, is already sounding warnings about the conciliatory tone at the White House. "We can call summits with the Soviets and the Democrats, or we can move out with the Reagan agenda," says Kemp. "If the White House sits down to write a trade bill or a budget in a summit with Bob Byrd or Jim Wright, it's over." When the President met last week with...
...Reagan's response was no less bald: he promised to "seize this new opportunity" by presenting his Administration's own plan for a missile-free Europe. With those two moves, arms-control negotiations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which have been stalled since last October's superpower summit in Reykjavik, suddenly took off like a racing car at Le Mans. For the first time since the grimaces and recriminations of that meeting, the two leaders seemed prepared, indeed determined, to make a historic deal...
...last fall's summit Gorbachev insisted that cutbacks on medium-range missiles be linked to concessions on Reagan's treasured Strategic Defense Initiative. Now the Soviets are willing to discuss the missiles separately. In addition, they have signaled a greater spirit of cooperation on the two stickiest outstanding issues: verification procedures and shorter-range missiles...
THOUGH TITLED Reagan and Gorbachev and boasting a picture on the cover of the two leaders discussing the fate of the world next to a cozy fireplace, the book lacks discussion of the 1985 Geneva summit and the 1986 Reykjek superpower get-together. It is ultimately about SDI. Mandelbaum and Talbott are guilty of trying to mask a one-sided condemnation of Star Wars in an even-handed discussion of Reagan and Gorbachev...