Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lift in public support and praise from some of his sharpest critics, who confessed that in this case at least he was not the headstrong hawk they had so long feared. Reagan's image as a statesman was further burnished last week by Moscow's agreement to a summit conference between him and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, to be held Nov. 19 and 20 in Geneva (see WORLD). But the President also faces the equally daunting though less heroic task of putting his clout to work internationally and domestically before the glow from the return of the hostages dissipates...
...that he has consolidated his power, Mikhail Gorbachev is feeling confident enough to meet with Ronald Reagan at a Geneva summit in November. But last week's announcement was downplayed in both Moscow and Washington. In the past, the problem with summitry has been that it raised expectations to unrealistic heights. This time the problem is the opposite: the Reagan- Gorbachev meeting raises questions of why the two leaders are bothering to get together...
...Reagan in particular felt that if her husband could, as she once put it, "just talk to those people," it would help. But others feared that unless substantive success was guaranteed in advance, the encounter might exacerbate distrust and discord. For that reason, the U.S. would have preferred a summit with preordained results in the form of a major new agreement, such as the treaties limiting strategic arms signed at the Nixon-Brezhnev meeting in 1972 or at the Jimmy Carter-Brezhnev summit in 1979, the most recent encounter between a Soviet leader and a U.S. President...
Amid this spate of unexpected appointments, another decision was announced in relatively muted fashion by both Moscow and Washington. President Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev will hold the first U.S.-Soviet summit meeting in six years, in Geneva on Nov. 19 and 20. Both sides were careful to limit the potential significance of the scheduled encounter...
Hammer, whose numerous visits to Kremlin leaders began when he met with Lenin in 1921, also discussed a possible Reagan-Gorbachev summit during a 90- minute talk with the Soviet leader last week. Hammer said Gorbachev assured him that "there will be a meeting, just where and when has not been determined." But Gorbachev stressed that "to have a meeting we must meet about something -- something must be accomplished." Hammer said he had no doubt the two leaders would accomplish something when they finally did meet. "I think they'll like each other and be frank with each other...