Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only last week, when--in an effort to counter the slew of peace initiatives proposed by Soviet President Michail Gorbachev--Bush unveiled a well-received plan at the NATO summit designed to achieve substantial cuts in conventional arms and troop levels, did the president provide us with a clear glimpse of his view of the future of superpower relations...
...hard to overlook the foreign policy achievements of the new President. The proposed arms reductions, aptly timed for the NATO summit, are critical indicators of the new President's approach to international security. It calls for Moscow to cut in half its troop presence in Eastern Europe--attaining a ceiling of 275,000 soldiers. Accordingly, NATO allies will reduce troops by 30,000 to meet the ceiling...
...these 16 nations prepare for their summit, we've sent out word to all our branches to send a supporting statement for the Bonn position, which we will deliver to the Bonn mission at the United Nations. We're calling for the abolition of all short-range nuclear weapons, East and West, and we're also proposing reduction of Warsaw Pact and NATO forces, both nuclear and conventional, to 50% of NATO's present strength. That is a first step to a united and disarmed Europe. I'll be going to Brussels myself, joining European members of the peace movement...
...whose Nairobi company arranges treks up Kilimanjaro, mostly for Americans. "Americans were brought up on his short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and they simply have to come and see for themselves." What they find is not one but two forbidding peaks: gaunt, craggy Mawenzi and snowcapped Kibo, the summit that looms over Harry, Hemingway's gangrenous protagonist, "wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white...
Democrats are poised to elevate Tom Foley to the top House post, but there will be a scramble for other leadership positions. -- At this week's NATO summit, George Bush may counter Gorbachev's gambits by proposing a cut in U.S. , forces in Europe. -- Could the explosion that killed 47 sailors on the U.S.S. Iowa have been triggered by a plot to collect insurance...