Word: summiteering
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...speak directly to the Soviet people on New Year's Day, and Gorbachev will likewise address the American people. The Soviets have long resisted giving the persuasive and telegenic Reagan such exposure, but apparently changed their minds in the hope that Gorbachev could raise U.S. expectations for the summit...
...harder work is due to resume on Jan. 16, when negotiators from both nations sit down in Geneva for a new round of arms-control talks. They have two things going for them: last November's Geneva meeting helped set a more optimistic tone for relations, and the summit the two men agreed to hold this year (possibly at Camp David) is bound to concentrate minds in both capitals on reaching some substantive agreement that can be signed by then...
...Charlie Wick's idea a year ago. The USIA director penned a letter to the chief Soviet spokesman, Leonid Zamyatin, about having their two leaders talk to the Soviet and American people directly over television. There was no answer from Moscow. At the Geneva summit eleven months later, Wick was walking offstage from a ceremony when he ran into Zamyatin, whom he had never met "I didn't answer your letter," Zamyatin confessed with a sheepish smile. Replied Wick: "I was wondering if you read your mail." Both men laughed. The spirit of the moment had seized them and, more...
...instant communication, already understood by terrorists. In the short run, the cameras can be exploited for propaganda. In the long run, fortunately, the truth asserts itself. Reagan is so certain of the potential of global imagery that he has begun to ponder how best to cast this year's summit in the U.S. so that doubters all over the world can see Gorbachev on the U.S. stage...
Ronald Reagan realized that a half-day summit with Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid last week could not begin to resolve differences between their two countries. So he used his four-hour stopover in Mexicali to drive home U.S. concern over Mexico's $96 billion foreign debt. The U.S. has been urging Mexico to cut government spending and increase private investment. De la Madrid told Reagan that Mexico was making "increasingly strenuous efforts," but was hampered by factors like the dropping world price of oil. The Mexican President seemed close to endorsing a plan by U.S. Treasury Secretary James...