Word: summiteer
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...traveling road show of electronic gadgetry. Though none of the three evening news anchors went to the Philippines last week, NBC's Brokaw and ABC's Jennings were in the country three weeks earlier for the presidential elections. All three anchors were in Geneva last November for the summit and in Mexico City in September to report on the earthquake. Jennings anchored 19 newscasts from foreign locations last year, including Paris, Bitburg and Hiroshima...
Following Reagan-Gorbachev at Geneva comes another U.S.-Soviet confrontation at the summit. This time, though, the summit sits at somewhere under 20 feet and the summiteers are the world's three best pole vaulters, Billy Olson, 27, and Joe Dial, 23, of the U.S., and the U.S.S.R.'s overarching Sergei Bubka, 22. Since the start of the year, the three have bettered one another's indoor records six times, and during the past fortnight they have gone height to height in U.S. indoor track-and-field meets from New York to California and back again. The visiting Bubka emerged...
...known to the world from this rostrum . . . It is hard to detect any serious proposals on the part of the U.S. Administration to get down to resolving the cardinal problem of eliminating the nuclear threat." Gorbachev went on to hint that fixing a date for his next summit meeting with Reagan would depend on progress at the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms talks in Geneva. Said he: "There is no sense in holding empty talks." Responded White House Spokesman Larry Speakes: "We can meet and have a productive meeting without progress at Geneva...
Stanford seniors have invited Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to speak at the Palo Alto, Calif. school's graduation when he visits the U.S. for a summit later this year...
Gorbachev's visit to the U.S. was originally scheduled for June, but President Reagan has indicated that the date of the summit may be pushed back to next fall...