Word: summiteer
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Hopes for avoiding a stalemate rest on the possibility of a grand "summit" between the White House and Congress, which could achieve a mix of spending cuts and new revenues. "We can sit down and go to work if he'll give at all," said Speaker O'Neill of the President. But Majority Leader Jim Wright asserted: "The President has no give. None. He is rigid and inflexible...
Setting up a summit, especially one that could lead to higher taxes, ! seemed the thing furthest from the President's mind, and he said so to Senate Republicans who came by the White House on Wednesday. He also emphasized his opposition to taxes as he made the rounds of Washington the next day, accepting cakes and congratulations on his 75th birthday. When presented with a cake at a gathering of political appointees, he joked about the wish he had made when Nancy had given him a cake earlier. "I blew out every candle, so there will be no tax increase...
...Moscow, meanwhile, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev told visiting Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts that the next summit with President Reagan must produce concrete results rather than the general statements about reducing the threat of war that concluded the first Gorbachev-Reagan meeting in Geneva last November. In a striking turnaround, Gorbachev seemed to enhance the prospect for a deal on missiles in Europe by stating that the Soviets would not insist that the U.S. first agree to abandon research on a space- based defense system (Star Wars). According to Kennedy, Gorbachev said "in emphatic and unmistakable terms that there...
Asked about the release earlier in the day of Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, Reagan said he "talked at great length about human rights" with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev at their summit last November. Reagan said he thought there had been an increase in such emigrations since then, and added, "I hope that this is a beginning sign of what's going to take place...
House Democratic leaders are equally wary of sitting down to a budget summit with the G.O.P. unless the White House clearly takes the lead. If there are to be big cuts in domestic programs, says an aide to Speaker O'Neill, "we want those cuts to carry a big sign saying 'Reagan...