Word: summiteering
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WASHINGTON--The Senate's Democratic and Republican leaders agreed yesterday that enough time remains to approve the medium-range missile treaty before President Reagan's summit meeting next week...
...conceivable that we could finish the work on the treaty by Friday or Saturday," Byrd told reporters after a White House meeting with Reagan to discuss the May 29-June 2 summit-between the president and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) agreed with Byrd that time remains before the summit to ratify the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty. "We can make it if we start staying in late and we file cloture today," he told reporters...
...Moscow next week Gorbachev is scheduled to hold his fourth summit meeting with Ronald Reagan. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze were in Geneva last week making the final arrangements for the session. On the eve of the summit, Gorbachev is hoping that by cutting his losses in Afghanistan, he will win friends and influence governments around the globe. If he can allay concerns about Soviet intentions from the Pacific to the Caribbean, Gorbachev may persuade a mistrustful world to lower its guard and permit more maneuvering room for Soviet diplomacy. To that...
When, at the Washington summit in December, Gorbachev signed the treaty eliminating intermediate-range nuclear missiles, he received more credit for accepting the zero option than Reagan got for having proposed it in 1981. Gorbachev achieved, as part of the deal, the long-standing Soviet aim of forcing the removal of all U.S. missiles from Europe. Congressional concerns about some details of that treaty led the Senate last week to postpone ratification, but in Geneva last Thursday, Secretary Shultz and Foreign Minister Shevardnadze seemed to have cleared up the remaining points of ambiguity. There is still deep suspicion...