Word: summiteering
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...happened before, the big questions about unity at the meeting may revolve around French President François Mitterrand. This year France's position at the summit is cloudier than ever because of the installation in March of Conservative Jacques Chirac as Socialist Mitterrand's Premier. Chirac has decided to put in an appearance at the meeting, throwing the protocol-conscious Japanese into a tizzy. One compromise: Chirac will show up at Akasaka only after the opening state dinner, thus avoiding a major problem with head-table seating...
...from being an afterthought of the summit, as it seemed to many at the time, it was in fact carefully thought out, the result of 15 months of tough negotiations and 65 meetings in Moscow. On the U.S. side, President Reagan, that old-time actor, was a firm supporter of an accord that he said would create "genuine constituencies for peace." On the Soviet side, there has been what one State Department official terms "a marked change in attitude. They have taken an active, positive role. There is an altogether different attitude." Hermann also detects their keen desire to make...
...American relations for more than 60 years, was already inside the room. Several years ago, Hammer had seen a Soviet exhibition of impressionist and postimpressionist paintings in Switzerland. He asked the Minister of Culture if he could borrow it for the U.S. too, but nothing happened until after the summit agreement. Under a deal Hammer and Carter Brown worked out, the National Gallery has already sent 40 impressionist paintings to the U.S.S.R. (Hammer also has loaned the Soviets 127 paintings from his own collection, which includes many old masters.) In return, the Hermitage and Pushkin museums have sent...
Reagan and Gorbachev talk at length on missile reductions, but the summit ends in a stalemate over the Strategic Defense Initiative. Icelanders greet invading summiteers with souvenirs, a swimsuit competition and a pony show. The Soviets take the lead in public relations. At an ancient peacemaking site, Roger Rosenblatt ponders the meaning of the talks. See NATION...
...discovered that "Uncle Joe" Stalin was more than merely the hack political boss he had first thought have two superpower leaders seemed so ideologically at odds. Reagan and Gorbachev both came to office not with their hands outstretched but with their dukes up. They seemed headed not for the summit of diplomacy but for the back alley of rhetorical scrapping and unbridled competition. Each took over at a time when his side felt threatened. Each gained power in part because he seemed to offer the best antidote to the threat...