Word: malta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that measure, the main value of Malta was in fulfilling Bush's stated goal: making a personal connection with Gorbachev. To Bush's relief, Gorbachev played a low-key role, thanking the President for his "prudent and cautious" rhetoric. The two leaders engaged in lengthy chats about "Western values," an expression Bush uses to describe the changes sweeping Eastern Europe. In one 30-minute segment, Gorbachev asked Bush to drop the phrase from speeches, because it implied the changes were a victory for the West. Accordingly, the President has started speaking of "democratic values...
...headline over a recent editorial in the New York Times proclaimed, THE COLD WAR IS OVER. President Bush has rightly taken issue with that statement. But as the "spirit of Malta" washes over the West, he may soon find that he is a very lonely member of a virtually silent minority. On all sides we hear that Western ideas have won and that Communism has been defeated. And yet a Communist named Gorbachev is the most popular man in Europe...
...President had been a little tentative going into such a highly charged superpower meeting, when the great Malta storm struck. But the outcome reassured the world and seemed to enhance Bush's presidential stature. His reflections on his eight hours with the Soviet boss came over the telephone line like pages out of a good reporter's notebook...
...down any lingering rumors of seasickness or distress on Malta's surging waves, Bush waxed eloquent about the night in the driving storm. "I loved it on the ship. We ate a wonderful dinner and had a good bottle of white wine. I went out on the fantail first, and for a couple of hours I watched those young boys working the anchor chains so skillfully in the high seas, and it was thrilling." That story undoubtedly will be enlarged and enriched as the years go on. Old sailors are just that...
...Meeting Malta's ambitious goals will take tough bargaining. U.S. business experts are pessimistic about helping Poland. The $300 billion S&L bailout could be dwarfed by a new crisis...