Word: summiteering
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...heavily subsidized competition for world food sales, the U.S. must not "disarm unilaterally" by abruptly abandoning Government farm supports. Yeutter and George Bush are relying instead on negotiated worldwide reductions in farm subsidies. The subject is expected to produce much talk -- and little progress -- at this week's Houston summit of the seven major industrialized democracies...
...would have seemed as preposterous as stickup artist Willie Sutton delivering the keynote speech to the American Bankers Association. But NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner will in fact fly to Moscow this weekend to give Mikhail Gorbachev a personal briefing on the results of last week's Western alliance summit in London. With him Worner will carry the diplomatic equivalent of an engraved invitation for Gorbachev to attend and speak at a future meeting of the NATO Council in Brussels, perhaps about a year from...
...suggested by U.S. President George Bush and enthusiastically endorsed by NATO's 15 other heads of government, was a surprise only in one sense. True, it was the one major proposal adopted in London that had not been tipped in advance. But it was a natural development of the summit's overriding theme: to persuade the Kremlin's leaders that NATO, born 40 years ago as a specifically anti-Soviet alliance, today has only the most peaceful intentions toward the U.S.S.R. As the closing communique put it, "The Atlantic community must reach out to the countries of the East which...
...summit, Bush proposed another compromise: NATO would consider nukes "weapons of last resort." Just how much change that represents is unclear. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft says it merely implies using nuclear weapons "later rather than earlier." Thatcher and Mitterrand fought against it nonetheless, and the communique wound up throwing the "last resort" doctrine into the future; it would be adopted only "with the total withdrawal" of Soviet forces stationed in Eastern Europe. That satisfied Thatcher that any change was merely semantic, and she signed. Mitterrand had misgivings even then, but went along for the sake of alliance solidarity...
...remains, whether to extend economic aid to Gorbachev's government. The Soviet President for the first time explicitly asked for such assistance in letters to Bush and Thatcher before the NATO meeting. But the subject evidently was considered too hot to handle: it was not on the summit agenda and went unmentioned in the communique, despite much discussion...