Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europeans to help halt what he called "the infernal train" of the arms race. Gorbachev's exchanges with French leaders and reporters, heavily played on the nightly news in the U.S. as well as in Europe, were watched closely as a kind of dress rehearsal for his November summit with Reagan...
Last week's development could prove to be a step in that direction. It could also enlarge the pot at the summit poker game. Before November, Shevardnadze said, "We have quite a lot of things to do ahead of us, and we'll meet frequently with you." Without question, the summit's prologue last week was a tantalizing start to that progression...
...like '84," said a presidential aide. "We've got oversight groups meeting to plan our approach to the summit. Policy papers are being prepared for the President. The speechwriters are gearing up. Our advancemen have been to Geneva a couple of times already. The media have a powerful desire to see a contest and are pounding the drums...
...again. The Swiss, pressured by the Soviets, asked the same question of the U.S. team. Then the Soviets requested a phone line and a typewriter in the American press center, wherever it might be. Pravda, TASS, Izvestiya and the other Soviet outlets undoubtedly would fill and color their summit coverage with the overheard irreverences of American correspondents chortling over Reagan's malapropisms, Nancy's dresses and Secretary of State George Shultz's tennis. That's the lingo of freedom that Soviet eavesdroppers love to distort. The U.S. team, wise in the ways of media, suggested the Soviets give them similar...
Within a few days the entire White House will, one way or another, be geared into this summit preparation. Countless people from ten agencies will be pressed into service. It could be true that the Soviets have had a few good moments lately in their pre-summit politicking, but the Americans, who invented the game, are working and waiting. Gorbachev had best be careful or he may peak too soon...