Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze will come here at the end of the week to discuss prospects for a superpower summit meeting and an agreement to ban intermediate-range nuclear missiles, a U.S. official said yesterday...
...official said he could not predict whether a date for a visit by Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev would be set then. But, the official said, "a scenario for a summit is developing...
Meanwhile, President Reagan said yesterday that U.S.-Soviet affairs are "a little up in the air" following Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's refusal to pick a date for a summit, but added he still believes a treaty to ban medium-range nuclear weapons is "going to be signed...
Fears that shipments to the U.S. would be increasingly constricted by trade barriers led Mulroney to propose a free-trade treaty to Reagan during the second "shamrock summit," which took place last year. Reagan, an avowed free trader, embraced the idea. But even as negotiations proceeded, bitter disputes arose. In one case, the Administration bowed to pressure from U.S. lumber companies by slapping a 35% tariff on Canadian cedar shakes and shingles...
...satellite communications among its original eleven member nations. Today Intelsat boasts 114 affiliated countries and owns 13 communications satellites, which handle a billion telephone calls a year. It also provides transmission facilities to television networks for such events as the 1984 Olympic Games and last year's Tokyo economic summit. Intelsat's 1986 revenues: $488 million...