Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iceland meeting came about. We didn't have any advance idea that this particular suggestion would be made. We viewed it very much as it was described in Mr. Gorbachev's letter, namely an effort to further the preparations for a U.S. summit meeting. Given the evident desire of Mr. Gorbachev to give this whole thing additional impetus, it could be useful. But we of course said that it just wouldn't make any sense as long as we had the Daniloff case unresolved. To have a meeting in Reykjavik under those circumstances would be a waste of time. When...
...central hotels. Tourists on an Icelandair promotion package were ordered to clear out early. That opened up space for only 916 visitors, but again entrepreneurial Icelanders promptly filled the gap. Houses and apartments in central Reykjavik were renting for an unheard of $6,000 to $7,000 for the summit week. "This is a chance of a lifetime," said one woman. "I'd much rather be in Majorca anyway." The Soviet Union plans to solve the space crunch by sending one or more cruise ships to Reykjavik harbor to act as floating hotels for reporters and support workers...
...since the highly publicized 1972 chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in Reykjavik has Iceland (pop. 240,000) been the focus of such intense superpower attention. The summit, proudly wrote an editorialist in Morgunbladid, the island's largest daily newspaper, "puts Iceland in the spotlight as firmly as it has ever been...
...Russian Research Center invited Daniloff in April--months before his arrest--to be a featured speaker at a day-long seminar, "The Soviet Union: Orientation for Journalists--preparation for Summit...
Sixteen hundred writers also signed petitions asking President Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail S. Gorbachev to place Soviet emigration restrictions on the agenda of the upcoming summit in Iceland, Milgren said. She added that some students also wrote personal letters of support to Soviet families who have asked to leave that country, Milgrem said...