Word: summiteering
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Certainly George Bush has so far failed to get the message across, in part because of his own ambivalence. At his summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the President proclaimed, "We've moved a long, long way from the depths of the cold war." But asked last week if the cold war was over, Bush fudged: "Well, I don't know -- we've got to wait and see." Ever since the summit, the President has heard grumbling -- and not only from right-wingers -- that he failed to "jam it to them while they're weak," in the words of Wisconsin...
...round of balloting, after his inept delivery of an annual report. His replacement, Ivan Polozkov, was so hard-line that many Gorbachev supporters could not vote for him, and he lost twice. Vlasov was trotted out again for the third round. On the night before he left for the summit, Gorbachev called a meeting of some 400 Deputies at the party Central Committee headquarters and suggested that they vote for Vlasov...
...thought she was the glasnost equivalent of Nancy; no continent the two occupied at the same time seemed big enough. By comparison, last week's distaff summit was a close encounter of a gentler kind, and a small, makeshift stage at Wellesley College was more than space enough for both. This was Barbara Bush's coming of age as First Lady, her riposte to student complaints that she did not reflect "the self-affirming qualities of a Wellesley graduate." The Soviet First Lady confined herself to predictable Kremlin- speak about perestroika, leaving the ovations for her hostess...
When the klieg lights of the summit have faded and the lambent glow of history takes over, Bush's response to the controversy set off by the Wellesley seniors may be what is remembered. While the First Lady's official cause is literacy, her unofficial mission is to convince a new generation of women that there is honor and a deep, sustaining pleasure in motherhood, that a life-style is no substitute for a life. "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, ((not)) winning one more verdict, or not closing...
Even the word summit is a questionable description of where the two leaders stood. The peaks they each dominate are much lower now, and there are other leaders on other mountains with power and influence to reckon with...