Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American officials first sought the release of Soviet Dissidents Anatoly Shcharansky and Andrei Sakharov. When Moscow said no, the U.S. went instead for numbers. The deal was finally closed last month when President Reagan was in West Germany for the economic summit. The 19 East Germans and six Poles involved were mainly low-level spies employed by U.S. intelligence agencies...
...South Africa of trying to bring pressure on Botswana to sign a formal nonaggression treaty similar to the ones it now has with Swaziland and Mozambique. Last week's raid also appeared to be designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the ANC just before the organization's planned weekend "summit" meeting at an undisclosed location in southern Africa, where the rebels were expected to plan their future campaign against the South African government...
...election momentum. Congress handcuffed the President on aid to the contras in Nicaragua, MX missile deployment and his defense buildup. Reagan's visit to a German military cemetery in Bitburg raised a storm of criticism at home and abroad. No breakthrough on arms control is in sight, and a summit meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev seems to be drifting into limbo. Tax reform, says former Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss, "is the best thing Ronald Reagan has going...
...rare moment of levity in an otherwise dour and downbeat Franco-West German summit meeting between the two leaders. Five hours of discussion had failed to dissipate a growing malaise between Paris and Bonn, much less restore the intimate Franco-German relationship that flourished under ex- President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The current differences, over trade talks and agricultural prices, seem certain to hinder progress toward greater West European unity. More important, on the prickly issue of Star Wars and Ronald Reagan's invitation to West Europeans to join in the U.S.'s Strategic Defense...
Mikhail Gorbachev may not want a summit meeting with Ronald Reagan just yet, < but the Soviet leader sat down last week with U.S. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, who arrived in Moscow for the highest-level U.S.-Soviet trade talks since 1978. Gorbachev told Baldrige it is "high time to defrost the potential of Soviet-American cooperation," but he blamed the limited trade between the two countries on what he called Washington's discriminatory policies and interference in internal Soviet affairs. Afterward, Baldrige emphasized that improvements in trade "will depend on parallel improvements in other aspects of our relations...