Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union as possible, and in the past few months his confidence has grown that he can do this without incurring any major risk. According to the prevailing view among Reagan's advisers, the Soviets have the most to lose if they back out of the upcoming summit, so the U.S. has nothing to lose by acting assertive...
...says one national-security adviser, wants another summit, but with Soviet rather than American concessions. "We would like them to engage in a fundamental reassessment of their policy on regional issues," he says. "Until now the Soviets have not been seriously challenged in their regional initiatives--Afghanistan, Angola, Libya, Nicaragua--and they may have overextended themselves. Like every bureaucracy, the tendency has been for them to muddle through. Now we want them to learn what the costs are of all this adventure...
...turns out, the continuing division leaves Washington disinclined to give its negotiators new instructions for the arms-control talks resuming May 8 in Geneva. Nor has there been any effort to set forth new proposals that meet Gorbachev's demand for "concrete progress" on arms control at any new summit...
...advance of the Dobrynin visit, the betting in Washington was that Gorbachev would eventually agree to come to a second summit. To stay home, in this view, would hand Reagan a devastating propaganda advantage. In other words, Gorbachev needs a new summit more than Reagan does...
...remainder of the Reagan presidency. Georgi Arbatov, a key adviser on American affairs, muttered darkly on a Soviet television program last week, "Soviet relations with the U.S. did not begin with Reagan, and they will not end with Reagan." That may be bluster, as Gorbachev's pre-summit comments last year proved to be, but there is a chance that this time the Soviets just might mean...