Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney would have preferred to talk about the just adjourned economic summit, at which he had successfully acted as host in Toronto. But the journalists crowded around him in the city's convention center last week were far more interested in a report, aired moments earlier by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., that Canada had uncovered a major Soviet | espionage ring. Mulroney confirmed that six days earlier Ottawa had expelled eight Soviet diplomats and declared nine others persona non grata for "improper and unacceptable behavior." That was a euphemism for what proved...
Baker's resignation has enhanced the fin de regime feeling that has hung over the White House since the Moscow summit. With no major battles left to be fought, no treaties to be ratified, no important goals that could realistically be achieved, the Administration seems to be biding its time. James Reichley, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, feels the Administration is in a "tidying-up phase." Says Reichley: "The White House is in an even more defensive mode than at this time last year. They're being careful to prevent things from happening that they don't want...
...biggest challenge facing Duberstein may be finding something exciting to do. Reagan's agenda for his final months in office is hardly the stuff to send an overachiever's blood racing: preparing for the economic summit in Toronto this week, leading a virtually hopeless drive to win more funds for the Nicaraguan contras, working to revise the trade bill, pushing for stringent work requirements in the new welfare-reform legislation, campaigning for Bush. While Duberstein tries to generate enthusiasm in his staff, some observers expect a rash of White House resignations this summer. "I wouldn't want to be here...
...almost normal, a place with problems and foibles much like any other nation, a country that has ethnic protests, rock concerts, train wrecks, church services, strikes, scandals and beauty contests, not to mention pizza, pollution, late-night television talk shows and a First Lady. After the congenial Reagan-Gorbachev summit, the country paused for the millennium celebrations of the Russian Orthodox Church. Unthinkable under the old order...
Take Reagan's Moscow summit, which in all likelihood would have been a flop had it not been for a determined group of writers thumping away in the Old Executive Office Building. They provided the President with speeches that soared around the world, eloquent statements about freedom and democracy and glory of the individual. By the measure of the day, Chief Writer Tony Dolan, 39, along with Josh Gilder, 34, Peter Robinson, 31, Clark Judge, 40, and Mark Klugmann, 28, should have been out riding the bull market or selling their kiss-and-tell memoirs. Instead they were busy burnishing...