*'''December 2-3.''' [[President George H. W. Bush]] invites Soviet leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] to summit talks in [[Malta]]; reassures him “the U.S. will not take advantage” of Soviet troubles in Eastern Europe.
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====December 1989====
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*'''December 2-3.''' [[President George H. W. Bush]] invites Soviet leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] to summit talks in [[Malta]]; reassures him “the U.S. will not take advantage” of Soviet troubles in Eastern Europe.