Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan ship of state righted itself a bit last week by picking a Supreme Court nominee who appears to be neither politically extreme nor personally objectionable. The prospect of a deficit-reduction compromise, though getting little help from the President, looks mildly promising for the Reagan record. The coming summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev and the achievement of an arms-control agreement will help restore Reagan's stature. However, much more must -- and can -- be accomplished...
...week's end the financial world was left holding its breath for what had been promised as the most reassuring development of all: a bipartisan agreement to cut the U.S. budget deficit. After three weeks of daily meetings, the 15 congressional and Administration leaders who constitute the special budget summit adjourned without reaching a compromise on billions of dollars in new taxes and spending cuts...
...Arab League had argued, cajoled and bargained as they tried to work out their differences in the meeting rooms and corridors of the luxurious Plaza Hotel in Amman. Finally, tired but triumphant, King Hussein of Jordan took the podium at the closing ceremony to proclaim that the 15th summit of the league had produced nothing less than a "new birth" of Arab unity. The Jordanian monarch could be forgiven a bit of rhetorical excess. For while deep divisions in the Arab world remained, Hussein had indeed produced a remarkable and unexpected achievement. He had coaxed radical Syria and its inscrutable...
...Syrian turnaround became clear with the release of the summit's final communique, in which the assembled sheiks, princes and Presidents unanimously condemned Iran, which Syria has backed in the seven-year Iran-Iraq war. The members of the Arab League, the declaration says, "voiced their indignation at the Iranian regime's intransigence, provocations and threats to the Arab gulf states" and "denounced the bloody, criminal acts" of the Iranians who rioted last summer in the holy city of Mecca...
What inspired Syria's change of heart? According to summit participants, Assad concluded he could no longer remain aloof from the Arab world. Sentiment among the Arab leaders overwhelmingly favored pressuring Iran to end the war, and Assad apparently felt he had to move with the tide, putting at risk the millions of tons of free and subsidized oil that Iran has provided his country as a reward for his support. As for Egypt, the participants were eager to mend relations with the Arab world's most populous and powerful state so that Cairo's 450,000-man army could...