Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON -- The United States and the Soviet Union, in a step toward a 1986 summit, announced yesterday that planning talks will be held here in September between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and the Soviet foreign minister...
...date has been set for the long-delayed summit itself, Charles E. Redman, a State Department spokesman, said in announcing the talks Sept. 19-20 between Shultz and Eduard A. Shevardnadze...
...less puffs and more forceful words may be needed from the National Security Adviser as he faces a series of imminent tests. If the Administration cannot explain its South Africa policy more effectively, Congress seems ready to impose its own views. If there is to be another summit, the U.S. must decide where it is headed on arms control. Perhaps unfairly, the man who advises the easygoing President cannot afford to go too easy himself...
Former President Richard Nixon spent last week in Moscow on what his aide John Taylor described as a "private, fact-finding" mission. It was Nixon's sixth visit to the Soviet capital and his first since a 1974 summit with Leonid Brezhnev, just a month before Nixon resigned the presidency. Since he is the only U.S. President ever to visit the Kremlin, some diplomats speculated that Nixon might be helping to pave the way for a U.S.-Soviet summit. Others attributed the trip to Nixon's continuing campaign to build his image as a senior statesman...
...main stumbling block, both to the summit and to general progress in arms negotiations, remains Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, the space- based defense system better known as Star Wars. "The U.S. has no intention of renouncing SDI," Mitterrand said at the end of his visit. "The U.S.S.R. insists that as long as SDI is maintained, there can be no advance...