Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gottlieb said that he assumes the students were delayed because the Moscow foreign ministry is busy processing travel plans for the upcoming Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Geneva...
...pending exit visa is probably a move "to prepare public opinion in favor of the Soviet Union before the summit [conference between Reagan and Gorbachev in Geneva this November]," said Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes...
...Gorbachev would be an idiot--and he's not--if he would not make some kind of gesture before the summit," said Marshall Goldman, associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center. Goldman said one Soviet dissident who had tried for nearly a decade to leave the Soviet Union was also recently released in preparation for the up-coming summit conference in Geneva...
...quite. While legal experts in the State, Defense and Justice Departments had accepted the Pentagon interpretation even before McFarlane spoke, U.S. diplomats and NATO allies were appalled. They protested that the Administration position, coming only weeks before next month's Geneva summit meeting between Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, would doom any chance for negotiating an arms-control agreement. Shultz suggested to the White House that if McFarlane was making policy for so sensitive a matter on television, then Reagan would seem to have no need for a Secretary of State...
...leaders are expected to sit down together on Wednesday at a diplomatically designed round table in the delegate lounge for what may be the ultimate power lunch. Throughout the week, the visiting potentates will deliver uplifting speeches and debate such pressing matters as arms control and the upcoming Geneva summit. They will surely create a security nightmare for the thousands of U.S. Secret Service men and police arrayed to protect them, as well as tie up Manhattan traffic with their motorcades. Less certain is whether they can breathe new purpose and vigor into an institution that many observers believe...