Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kremlin's welcome mat came out after President Reagan's summit conference with Gorbachev in Washington last December. Besides reaching agreement on arms control, the two leaders promised to improve the business relationship between their countries. Earlier this month Commerce Secretary William Verity led a delegation of Administration officials to Moscow, where U.S. and Soviet leaders signed an agreement to explore mutual opportunities in such industries as food processing and construction equipment...
...explosive experts flew to Italy to see if the bombs in New Jersey and the blast in Naples were connected. The Naples suspect, Okudaira, was sought for a similar car-bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Rome last June while President Reagan was attending a seven-nation economic summit in Venice. Okudaira's organization is believed to have trained in Lebanon with Islamic Jihad, a Shi'ite Muslim group with ties to Iran. Responsibility for the Naples explosion was claimed by various factions of Islamic Jihad, one saying the attack was in retribution for the U.S. air assault...
...Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, but the case against him was dismissed for technical reasons. Antiterrorist experts in both Italy and the U.S. theorize that Kikumura may have been heading to Washington, where world finance ministers were meeting last week. Others thought he may have been awaiting the June economic summit conference in Toronto...
...slate of leaders. One of his informal advisers had been Frank Wells, a former vice chairman of Warner Bros., who had taken time out from show business to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents (he had to turn back 3,000 ft. below the summit of Mount Everest, the only one to frustrate his ambition). Wells clearly had the right stuff, especially as a financial man, but his most emphatic advice to Roy Disney was to hire Michael Eisner, president of Paramount Pictures. In eight years as the No. 2 man at Paramount, Eisner had been...
...incidents, at the Geneva summit in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev seemed to be getting the better of Reagan in quotesmanship, Speakes recalled in a phone interview last week. As he rode along frigid Lake Geneva in his car, he searched his notes for a good Reagan quote to feed the ravenous media. He knew Reagan's reasons for going to the summit. He knew he could put them into words the President would approve. Propelled by the intensity of the moment and his sense of power, he slid into deceit...