Word: summiteering
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...More specifically, what are the most important changes since you were last in Washington for your summit meeting with former President Reagan in December...
...most contentious issue of this week's summit may also be the most important foreign policy challenge facing the U.S. in the '90s: how to keep the peace in Europe now that the cold war is over. George Bush not only wants to preserve NATO, with a united Germany as a full member and U.S. troops on its soil; he also wants the Soviet Union to like the idea. In his TIME interview, Mikhail Gorbachev dismissed as "not serious" (a scathing put-down in the lexicon of Soviet diplomacy) the notion that a strengthened NATO will replace a disintegrating Warsaw...
...beginning of the year, the Administration was counting on the summit to help advance its German policy. The meeting , predicted one presidential adviser, was going to be "Christmas in spring," with Bush in the role of Santa Claus. Gorbachev would go home in triumph, laden with so many honors and agreements that his countrymen would barely notice he had let the U.S. have its way on Germany...
...German Democratic Republic joins NATO, the Soviet military will be harder for all of us, including Gorbachev, to deal with on a variety of other issues." That presumably refers to the many issues of nuclear and conventional arms control that will not be resolved at the summit this week...
...missiles would not reach El Salvador. What followed was an escalation of U.S.-Soviet tensions that threatened to undermine progress on arms control, Eastern Europe and other sensitive issues. Cables flew between Washington and Moscow. George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev had an acrimonious exchange at the Malta summit on Dec. 2. The growing superpower cooperation that seemed to mark the end of the cold war was fraying. But on the morning of Dec. 7, Moscow sent a flash message to the Vladimir Ilyich: "Return immediately to Leningrad...