Word: pre-summit
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...remainder of the Reagan presidency. Georgi Arbatov, a key adviser on American affairs, muttered darkly on a Soviet television program last week, "Soviet relations with the U.S. did not begin with Reagan, and they will not end with Reagan." That may be bluster, as Gorbachev's pre-summit comments last year proved to be, but there is a chance that this time the Soviets just might mean...
...Soviets responded peevishly to Shultz's trip, and especially to his rhetoric, which the Communist Party daily Pravda denounced as a throwback to the cold war era. Soviet Americanologist Georgi Arbatov asserted that Shultz has backed down from his pre-summit posture of conciliation toward the Soviet camp and has instead bowed to pressure from "right-wing circles" that, according to Soviet demonology, control the White House...
Within a few days the entire White House will, one way or another, be geared into this summit preparation. Countless people from ten agencies will be pressed into service. It could be true that the Soviets have had a few good moments lately in their pre-summit politicking, but the Americans, who invented the game, are working and waiting. Gorbachev had best be careful or he may peak too soon...
...extensively involved in preparing for Richard Nixon's visit to Moscow in May 1972. In a pre-summit meeting in Gromyko's office, as we were trying to think of a suitable gift for Nixon, Gromyko remarked, "Almost all Americans have some kind of hobby. Does anyone know what Nixon's is?" After a moment of head shaking around the table, Gromyko said dryly, "I think what he'd really like is a guarantee to stay in the White House forever." Soviet leaders did find in Nixon's behavior definite similarities to their own, and concluded that it might...
...week for their tenth annual economic summit meeting. .The sessions at London's pillared, flag-bedecked Lancaster House were just the kind of success that the host, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, had hoped they would be. "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing," she had intoned at a pre-summit press conference. "For he shall not be disappointed...