Word: summiteering
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...they made clear last week, Bush and Gorbachev already realize that their countries have a lot more to worry about than each other. Perhaps, before their next summit, they could acknowledge a shared interest in easing the terms of the ABM treaty while preserving its essence...
...with its neighbors, and it has been right to do so. Now there is a real opportunity to get to those face-to-face negotiations." He said he had not given Shamir a deadline for his response but hoped to get an answer before this week's U.S.-Soviet summit in Moscow. Bush and President Mikhail Gorbachev were thinking of issuing invitations from the summit to an October peace conference...
...soon as this week's summit winds up in Moscow, Baker will fly back to Jerusalem to finesse the last Israeli objections and preconditions. Most Middle East experts believe that Shamir will acquiesce and that the regional conference will convene in a few months. That would be a step toward the peace process but nothing close to an overall solution. Once the bilateral negotiations begin, Israel may go along with autonomy for Palestinians on the West Bank and Gaza. But Shamir vows to oppose any territorial concessions, offering only what he calls "peace for peace...
...START. They also harbor misgivings of their own about the Soviets. That is why they insisted on holding out for rules on verification that are intended as insurance against some future leader who might live up to Helms' epithets. The conclusion of the treaty and this week's summit were delayed for months as U.S. negotiators labored to close every conceivable loophole...
...victory of capitalism over communism. Therefore he didn't mind letting Gorbachev take his bows on the world stage. Reagan had trouble comprehending, not to mention caring about, the difference between ballistic and cruise missiles, but he understood intuitively the significance of what Gorbachev was doing. Asked during a summit meeting with Gorbachev in Moscow in 1988 if he still regarded the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," Reagan replied, "No, I was talking about another time, another era." And, he might have added, another kind of Soviet leader...