Word: summiteer
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GENEVA--The United States and Soviet Union ended three days of pre-summit talks yesterday with both sides appearing confident that a treaty scrapping intermediate-range nuclear weapons will be ready for signing next month...
...achieve two other goals of its complex strategy -- a major budget-deficit reduction and better economic-policy coordination with West Germany and Japan. On those two fronts came small but potentially significant victories last week. Congressional leaders and Administration officials reached an apparent breakthrough in their special deficit-cutting summit, in which they have been struggling for two weeks to compromise on a minimum of $23 billion in reductions. For the first time, Republican leaders came up with a proposal containing tax increases that President Reagan gave hints he might accept. It was, declared Republican Congressman Trent Lott of Mississippi...
...Washington seemed less likely to change their behavior patterns as memories of Black Monday drifted away. When congressional and Administration leaders opened their second week of emergency budget-cutting meetings last week, their post-crash burst of bipartisan magnanimity was on the wane. "The worst thing for the summit is stock-market stability. It takes the pressure off," says Economist Schultze...
...Soviet leader reiterated his commitment to the planned superpower summit in Washington next month and served notice on the Reagan Administration that he will demand tangible results from both that meeting and a projected Moscow ; summit in 1988. Insisting on "more than merely a continuation of discussion," Gorbachev called for a "palpable breakthrough" in strategic- arms reductions and in "barring weapons from outer space" -- a reference to the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative. There have been recent indications, however, that the Soviets might soften their die-hard opposition to space-based defenses in favor of gaining some predictability about...
Harvard is discussing with Soviet officials a possible stopover in Cambridge by Mikhail S. Gorbachev during his summit visit to the United States next month, University officials said today...