Word: summits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Said Bush after his first summit as president, "I am optimistic that as the West works patiently together and increasingly cooperates with the Soviet Union, we can realize a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship into one of enduring cooperation...
Bush and Gorbachev met for eight hours over two days during a time of extraordinary change in Eastern Europe. The upheaval was dramatized in the summit's final hours by the resignation of the East German leadership and the formation of a new government in Czechoslovakia that opposition leaders immediately denounced as too much like...
Gorbachev made fun of Bush's celebrated caution, in fact, telling the joint news conference, "In our position, the most dangerous thing is to exaggerate" the accomplishments of the Malta summit "and that we should always preserve elements of cautiousness--and I use the favorite word by President Bush...
...airy" theorizing. Yet as he prepped for the toughest challenge in his diplomatic career, this weekend's meeting in Malta with Mikhail Gorbachev, there were tantalizing signs that the President was coming down with a case of "the vision thing." As he described his attitude toward the Saltwater Summit last week, "I'm thinking of it rather philosophically...
...items as the Navy's Seawolf attack submarine, the Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter and the Army's LHX attack helicopter. The Navy flouted the spirit of Malta further by scheduling a test of its Trident II submarine-based ballistic missile for Dec. 1 -- the day before the summit begins. The Navy's insensitivity to diplomatic timing so worried the Joint Chiefs of Staff that they are contemplating postponing the test...