Word: summiteering
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After spending nearly four months kicking the tires of Western defense and diplomacy, George Bush last week finally climbed into the driver's seat. The reason for the President's triumph at the NATO summit was simple. His new proposal on conventional forces restored a degree of credibility and seriousness to the American conduct of arms control that has been missing for a decade -- and that is a crucial ingredient in the leadership of the Western alliance, especially in the age of Gorbachev...
...fully committed to quick agreement on deep reductions. Bush began talking about conventional arms during the election campaign and now seeks to portray this week's drama as the logical outcome of a "prudent" process. In fact, he made up his mind little more than two weeks before the summit. Even then, Bush moved largely in response to Gorbachev, who had just set forth yet another compelling proposal to Secretary of State James Baker...
SOMETIMES, responsibility seems to become too much to ask. Self-reliance indeed was the reason for the milestone summit of collegiate minorities at Harvard in February. Dubbed the Intercollegiate Conference, more than 1000 students from schools throughout New England and the Ivy League congregated in Cambridge to build coalitions between Black, Hispanic, Asian-American and Native American communities...
Only last week, when--in an effort to counter the slew of peace initiatives proposed by Soviet President Michail Gorbachev--Bush unveiled a well-received plan at the NATO summit designed to achieve substantial cuts in conventional arms and troop levels, did the president provide us with a clear glimpse of his view of the future of superpower relations...
...hard to overlook the foreign policy achievements of the new President. The proposed arms reductions, aptly timed for the NATO summit, are critical indicators of the new President's approach to international security. It calls for Moscow to cut in half its troop presence in Eastern Europe--attaining a ceiling of 275,000 soldiers. Accordingly, NATO allies will reduce troops by 30,000 to meet the ceiling...