Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision for the operation is mine and mine alone," he said at a session so consumed with the Iranian issue that his summit meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev didn't come up until its midpoint...
...REYKJAVIK SUMMIT raised hopes about an agreement for the abolition of nuclear weapons, but it appeared to founder on the President's intransigence over his Strategic Defense Initiative. One proposed utopia appeared to defeat another. How should we think about SDI and the long-term future of nuclear deterrence...
...being caught out in such an improbable and embarrassing situation was evident in the scramble of the White House to put a lid on the rapidly expanding story. Whereas only a few weeks ago the Administration had rallied its forces to defend the President's actions at the Iceland summit, virtually blitzing the media with press conferences, interviews and briefings, now there was a chorus of no comments, off-the- record observations, obfuscations and pointed suggestions of self- restraint, even repression of the emerging facts. President Reagan declared that the | disclosures "are making it more difficult...
...almost as if the Soviets and Americans who met last week in Vienna to pick up where they had left off on arms control at the Iceland summit also decided to mimic the outcome at Reykjavik. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Secretary of State George Shultz started the talks with friendly smiles and expressions of hope. Then, two days later, they emerged frustrated, each blaming the other for their failure to break the Reykjavik stalemate. Before Shevardnadze boarded a plane back to Moscow, he said the talks had left him with a "bitter taste." Declared Secretary Shultz...
...went to Vienna hoping to "clarify and confirm," in writing, the agreements reached at the Reykjavik summit. "We wanted to codify the progress made and nail down the remaining problems," said Shultz. The Secretary presented Shevardnadze with the specific wording of U.S. proposals for sharp cutbacks in intermediate-range missiles and their elimination in Europe, a 50% reduction in strategic missiles, a phase-out of underground nuclear testing through a step-by-step process, and a ten-year renunciation of the U.S.'s right to withdraw from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty restricting space-based defenses. "We asked them...