Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets responded peevishly to Shultz's trip, and especially to his rhetoric, which the Communist Party daily Pravda denounced as a throwback to the cold war era. Soviet Americanologist Georgi Arbatov asserted that Shultz has backed down from his pre-summit posture of conciliation toward the Soviet camp and has instead bowed to pressure from "right-wing circles" that, according to Soviet demonology, control the White House...
Before the Geneva summit disappears into a black hole, it deserves to be looked at as a classic example of how a President crafts an agreed-upon version of an event and puts it across. Remember the anticipatory worries: Did Reagan know enough about nuclear warfare even to discuss it? Was he so rigid that he would pass up any possibility of compromise, or was he so naive that he might give away the store? More than any Administration before it, the White House samples public opinion almost every night during major events (if the public seems too optimistic, "lower...
...Gorbachev had talked, quote aides on how well they got along, and fill space with features like CBS News' "cold war wardrobes" of Raisa Gorbachev and others. Press commentary had to be tentative. "Politically, it was a plus for both men," Commentator Bill Moyers solemnly intoned. During the summit, some reporters were able to piece together coherent accounts of what went on, but they mostly relied on briefings from the Administration...
...capital. The President's well-crafted speech claimed no euphoric meeting of minds, only that he and Gorbachev "understand each other better. And that's key to peace." Gorbachev played it the same way at home. It is now the agreed-upon version of Geneva that the summit can only be judged a success or failure by whatever actions later flow from it. Reagan had got safely past a meeting that he had for years resisted and the world plainly wanted...
...Secretary Malcolm Baldrige and more than 400 U.S. business leaders descended on Moscow for this year's meeting. Last year trade between the two countries amounted to only $3.9 billion, mostly in grain shipments from the U.S. Yet the executives got a jolt of optimism from last month's summit talks between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. They came to Moscow in the hope that business would follow the banner of detente...