Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moscow apparently approved the Bonner trip as a gesture of goodwill before last month's summit between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. At those talks, however, Gorbachev showed no signs that he is ready to ease restrictions on dissidents or would-be emigres. President Reagan made it equally clear that substantial changes in the Soviet attitude on human rights are essential before there can be any significant improvement in superpower relations...
Shortly after Regan took over as chief of staff last January, the normally discreet McFarlane began grumbling about his job. He first felt shunted aside by Regan at the European economic summit last spring in Bonn. The National Security Adviser had opposed the President's visit on the same trip to a German military cemetery at Bitburg, where Nazi SS officers were buried, but Reagan went ahead with it. When Reagan was hospitalized for cancer surgery in July, the chief of staff had McFarlane present his daily security briefings to the President in writing, rather than orally. At the same...
While President Reagan was having a high old time these past few months, boldly collaring international hijackers and jousting at the summit with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Congress was letting its work pile up. Now the unfinished business of Capitol Hill awaits Reagan like a sinkful of dishes at the end of a party. After months of querulous debate over tax reform and deficit reduction, Congress must finally sort things out before heading home for Christmas...
...wasn't really a summit, it was the pits," said Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, one of three speakers in a forum sponsored by the Eighth Congressional District Nuclear Freeze Committee...
...face of a nuclear arms race that is escalating into space and squandering our resources, they did not live up to their duties," Mendelsohn said in the discussion entitled, "After the Summit--Now What...