Word: summiteer
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...Ronald Reagan. As special adviser to the President and Secretary of State for Arms Control, Nitze played a key, sometimes controversial part in crafting last week's treaty on intermediate- range nuclear forces (INF). He was chairman of the high-level American "working group" on arms control during the summit. And he is embroiled in a fierce struggle to bring about a much more ambitious strategic-arms agreement next year...
...attempt to improve on the much maligned SALT process. The encounter was, says Nitze, "one of the most exciting experiences of my life -- and potentially one of the most productive." Nitze believes a START agreement may be possible, perhaps in time to be signed at a Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Moscow next year -- but only if the U.S. is willing to accept some limits on the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars...
During the Washington summit and the period leading up to it, the Soviets toned down their sharp criticism of Star Wars, indicating a possible change in the Soviet position...
...going over everyone's head -- this time directly to influential American liberals. On Feb. 6, during a conversation with visiting Senator Edward Kennedy, the Soviet leader said an interim INF deal, independent of START and SDI, might indeed be possible. Moreover, such an agreement could be signed at a summit in Washington later in the year...
...main question surrounding Monday's interview was the degree to which American TV was being manipulated. All three networks, as well as CNN, had sought a pre-summit interview with Gorbachev, but the Soviets gave the exclusive nod to NBC. CBS executives complained that their network was being punished for aggressive coverage of the war in Afghanistan and Dan Rather's combative questioning of Gorbachev in Paris two years ago. NBC executives preferred to see their coup as the fruit of a 2 1/2-year negotiating campaign by veteran NBC News Executive Gordon Manning...