Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev told Perle he had seen a new film, from Britain's Granada television and shown last week on PBS, that dramatized the Reykjavik summit. "The fellow who played you lost a lot of weight," laughed Gorbachev to the pleasantly padded Perle, who relished the notoriety...
...will be remembered as the summit at which intimacy and symbolism overshadowed disputes about substance, and its spirit was captured during a private moment between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan on the morning after they signed their historic arms accord. The President led the Soviet leader to a little study next to the Oval Office and produced a baseball that Joe DiMaggio had hoped to have autographed by Gorbachev at the state dinner the night before. Reagan was not just fulfilling the old Yankee slugger's request. He had a metaphor in mind. Are we, he asked, going to play...
Gorbachev's dazzling visit to Washington for the summit of 1987 seemed to herald a new and more personable ball game in the 40-year struggle between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. At center stage stood the leaders of the world's two most powerful nations, smiling warmly, shaking hands, exchanging pens, trading one-liners. The Soviet visitor even burst into song at one point. When it was all over, Gorbachev called the three-day Washington summit a "major event in world politics," while Reagan grandiloquently declared that the meeting had "lit the sky with hope for all people...
...centerpiece of the summit was the ceremonial signing of an intermediate- range nuclear forces treaty that eliminated an entire class of atomic weapons from Europe and the rest of the world. The product of six years of negotiation, the pact calls for the destruction of 1,752 Soviet and 859 American missiles and establishes rigorous on-site verification procedures that pave the way for more ambitious agreements in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) regarding longer-range weapons...
...proposed Strategic Defense Initiative, the two sides showed a willingness -- at least for the moment -- to make that dispute less of an obstacle to a START treaty. Such an agreement, if the SDI issue can continue to be finessed, is expected to form the basis for a fourth summit in Moscow late next spring...