Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...locus for world diplomacy, George Washington University's Smith Athletic Center hardly rivals Versailles's Hall of Mirrors. But when White House aides scouted buildings in Washington large enough to house the 5,000 reporters, photographers, anchors and technicians covering next month's Reagan-Gorbachev summit, almost all were booked. That left the center and its gym, home to the Colonials basketball team...
Daniloff made headlines in 1986 when he was arrested by the Soviet Union on charges of espionage. He was later released as part of an arrangement by the two superpowers that led to the Reykjavik summit in October...
President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev are scheduled to hold the summit in Washington December...
After that meeting, the two governments announced the summit plans and said the medium-range treaty would be signed. They also said Reagan and the Soviet leader hoped for another summit in 1988 at which they could sign an agreement on reducing long-range nuclear forces by 50 percent...
...senior official in Washington has said no breakthrough on Afghanistan is likely at the summit. But Gennady Gerasimov, chief spokesman of the Soviet Foreign Ministry, indicated the Kremlin wants out of its eight-year old military involvement...