Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What issues will be most important for your government at the summit...
...concerned that the controversy could have a detrimental effect on the upcoming summit and even on personal relations between Germans and Americans...
...superpower negotiations. For the Reagan Administration, which gained substantial political luster in pushing for the talks, the opening session was an ominous reminder that an acrimonious and endlessly drawn-out contest of wills in Geneva could tarnish that luster. A prolonged stalemate might also downgrade any U.S.-Soviet summit to an exercise in atmospherics...
...invited the U.S. to do the same. He also proposed a freeze on strategic offensive arms and a moratorium on the development of space weapons while arms negotiations are under way in Geneva. Almost as an aside, he mentioned that both powers had expressed "a positive attitude" toward a summit. "Confrontation," Gorbachev said, "is not an inborn defect of our relations...
...stroke, Gorbachev had taken the arms talks public and implied that a summit was linked to progress in Geneva. The warm words from Washington, it seemed, had only brought another Soviet negotiating gambit. Gorbachev had timed the announcement for maximum effect. It coincided with antinuclear demonstrations in Europe and came on the eve of a visit by a U.S. congressional delegation. It came, as well, just two days before the arrival of the Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, the one NATO country still deciding whether to install U.S. missiles. If the Dutch proceed, deployment would begin Nov. 1; Gorbachev...