Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan, taking a slow route to Tokyo for next week's sevennation economic summit, spent yesterday resting before heading for Bali, Indonesia, to meet with with leaders of the six-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including a representative of the Philippines...
President Reagan's chief spokesman declined to spell out what he meant by that. However, Speakes did say, "we will take up these kind of issues at the economic summit in Tokyo" from...
...possibility of a superpower summit this year, Gorbachev said, "We are ready for a Soviet-American meeting so long as the appropriate international atmosphere is created, and real disarmament steps are possible...
Nonetheless, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union seemed committed to proceeding toward a summit later this year. The Soviets continued to express disappointment over the lack of progress on central arms-control issues. But Dobrynin's messages last week, both literal and atmospheric, will make it difficult for Gorbachev to back out without considerable provocation. What remains to be seen is whether the Reagan Administration's policy of challenging the Soviets directly and in places like Libya and Nicaragua will force concessions or lead to another stalemate over the summit...
...week Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone took new steps--or perhaps half steps--to meet those international pressures by vowing to change the habits of his country's 120 million thrifty citizens. On the eve of a weekend visit to Camp David to discuss the seven-nation annual economic summit that Japan will host in May, Nakasone accepted a report by a Cabinet advisory committee that outlined ways to wean the Japanese away from an export-led economy by boosting local consumption. During his scheduled three-hour session with President Reagan, the Prime Minister was expected to explain...