Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think we got very little for what was really an outrageous act of aggression," said Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on the arrest of Daniloff. The dangerous precedent of the Daniloff-Zakharov swap--of a Soviet spy for an American civilian--he said, "is more important than some glossy summit...
...summit is desirable, but the swap was deplorable," said Congressman Stephen Solarz (D-N.Y.). He's right. Effective arms control agreements are essential, but to achieve them there needs to be some basic level of cooperation, trust and understanding between the two governments. All three were undermined by the Soviet Union this month...
...toll: a doctor at the embassy is worried about the correspondent's continued high blood pressure. Despite the hopes for a settlement, Ronald Reagan has stood firm in insisting that Daniloff is an "innocent hostage who should be released." As long as he remained in the Soviet Union, a summit would be held hostage as well...
When Nicholas Daniloff was ensnared four weeks ago in a KGB trap, it was thought the tense game of pawns that ensued would prevent any progress on arms control or toward a Soviet-American summit. Instead, something quite different occurred. Movement on arms control increased, and so did hopes for a year-end meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. As a result, the dog seemed to wag the tail for a change: the desire to reach an accord on the major issues dividing the superpowers created an eagerness to resolve, as quickly as face-saving maneuvers would allow...
...Daniloff affair (which now encompasses not only the arrest of Zakharov but also Washington's order to expel 25 Soviet employees from the U.N.) has been seen as a ready gauge of the desire in Moscow and Washington for progress on larger issues. If both sides wanted a summit, it was thought, a way would be found to untangle the affair. That forced both leaders, after months of dithering, to face squarely the question of how badly they really desired to meet again. The answer: badly enough to give their diplomats a go-ahead to negotiate a face-saving compromise...