Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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VIENNA, Austria--High level superpower arms control talks ended bitterly yesterday with the Soviet Union accusing the United States of a "complete retreat" from positions agreed to at the Iceland summit. Secretary of State George P. Shultz said "Star Wars" was still the sticking point...
...their own as Ted Kennedy and 1988 Presidential Hopefuls Gary Hart, Joseph Biden and Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt to stump for their party's candidates. National figures on both sides are trying to inject some issues into the campaign, stressing the struggle for the Senate and, since the Reykjavik summit, the President's allegiance to the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...fact, there was little evidence of any South African involvement in the crash. The accident occurred as Machel was returning from a Zambian summit meeting of so-called frontline black African states located near South Africa. Machel's official plane, a Soviet-made Tupolev 134-B, took off with 44 people aboard, including a Soviet crew of five. It refueled in Lusaka, then flew across Zimbabwe and headed south toward the Mozambique capital of Maputo. Violent thunderstorms were hitting the area, and visibility was poor. Near the South African town of Komatipoort, the Soviet pilot announced he had Maputo airport...
This book is one of a long history of entrepreneurial ventures for Curry and Kasbar. The summer before they entered Yale as freshmen, the pair ran a vegetable stand in their hometown of Summit, N.J., said Kasbar. At last year's Harvard-Yale game, the two sold t-shirts with derogatory comments about Harvard in seven languages. The back of the t-shirt read, "In any language, Harvard sucks...
...President, who had declared that the Reykjavik meeting was supposed to be merely a "base camp" for a full-scale summit in the U.S., allow it to turn into a breathtaking marathon marked by snap decisions on some of the most complex and fateful issues of the nuclear age? Did Reagan's men let themselves get carried away by the promise of the deal of the century, when they should have been nailing down a more realistic agreement on medium- range missiles? Instead of pulling an all-nighter in Iceland, why didn't the Americans simply...