Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet goals. Mikhail Gorbachev would like to come back from the Geneva summit with some kind of detente. They need some restrictions on their massive ; defense projects, which have become a burden on their economy. Even so, they not only have a missile-defense system that encircles Moscow; they have a production line ready to build the components to extend that system around the country, rather rapidly...
...final decision came when the presidential party returned to Washington aboard Air Force One. At about 4 p.m., McFarlane abruptly left a staff discussion of the upcoming Geneva summit and entered Reagan's private cabin. It was then that the President said, "Go ahead, and let's execute." About 15 minutes later, the EgyptAir plane left Cairo...
...Public Health, is largely apolitical except for the subject of disarmament, on which he has strong opinions. Last week he stated that the unilateral Soviet ban on nuclear testing, announced in July, "should be reciprocated by the West" as an inducement for "enormous achievements" at the upcoming Reagan-Gorbachev summit. Chazov, 56, director of the vast U.S.S.R. Cardiology Research Center, is a member of the Communist Party Central Committee and head of the group that oversees medical care for members of the ruling Politburo. The two have become close personal friends during their years with the IPPNW, and at their...
...Soviet delegation's spacious Geneva headquarters with some pointed banter. The Kremlin's offer "is balanced," the Soviet negotiator proclaimed, "as balanced as I am, standing on both my feet." He insisted that the Soviets were doing their part to ensure the success of the upcoming Geneva summit, but the U.S. had been "dragging its feet from the very start" on arms control. Quipped Karpov in the kind of Western cliche that seems to spill effortlessly from publicity-conscious Soviet diplomats these days: "It takes two to tango." His American counterpart, Max Kampelman, said the U.S. was "hopeful" that...
...other hand, Mitterrand could hardly be described as a pushover for Soviet blandishments. After taking office in 1981, he suspended the frequent Franco-Soviet summit meetings that had been, as a Mitterrand adviser put it, a "liturgical institution" of detente. On a visit to Moscow last year, Mitterrand took the ailing Kremlin leadership of the day to task for its treatment of Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov. Moreover, the public mood in France these days is viscerally anti-Soviet. Said a French official: "Nowadays, everybody is repelled by the Soviets, who have discredited themselves in so many ways...