Word: summiteer
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There has also been more argument and speculation about the contents of the album than about what happened at the Reykjavik summit. Yes, classics like Born to Run are there, jumping out of a superb audio mix like a Maserati off the mark. But so are Springsteen standards like Thunder Road and No Surrender, performed with newly spare instrumentation, sounding entirely different and stronger than ever. There are tunes Springsteen wrote for other performers that he has never recorded (Fire, Because the Night), as well as songs that he has borrowed from others (This Land Is Your Land, War, Raise...
...Washington and Western Europe concerned last week that the President had come close to accepting a huge Soviet advantage in conventional forces. Administration officials conceded that the Soviets had not seriously misrepresented the President's assent to a sweeping no-nukes proposal from Mikhail Gorbachev at the Reykjavik summit. Although it seemed that Reagan might have blundered into this position, White House aides insisted that he had been fully aware of the implications of his bargaining tactics...
Presidential aides said Reagan, during a break in the meeting, alerted his advisers to the Soviets' substitution of the phrase "all strategic forces" for "ballistic," as written in a U.S. proposal. Said one summit participant: "He knew exactly why that was not a good deal and why it couldn't be achieved in the time frame...
...accused the U.S. side of a "complete retreat" from the October 11-12 summit meeting in Iceland between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
...Reykjavik summit ended in deadlock over the Star Wars antimissile program, after Reagan rejected restrictions on testing of it as part of an arms reduction deal...