Gorbachev to Seek ’89 Summit With Bush

UNITED NATIONS — Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev will seek a summit meeting with President-elect George Bush in 1989 but will not discuss substantive matters in his meeting with Bush and President Reagan on Wednesday, Soviet foreign policy officials said Monday.

“This is not a summit,” Georgy A. Arbatov, Moscow’s top U.S. analyst, said of Wednesday’s meeting. “The next summit would be quite useful.”

At a summit next year, he told reporters, Gorbachev and Bush could make progress toward reducing long-range nuclear weapons, limiting conventional arms and planning for global economic development.

Nikolai V. Shishlin, a member of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee, declared that the frequent meetings between Gorbachev and Reagan--Wednesday’s will be their fifth in just over three years--are only the beginning.

“Pauses in U.S.-Soviet dialogue will not exist” in the future, Shishlin said. “I’d say the Cold War is over or on the way out.”

But Arbatov warned: “There’s so much inertia in it that it will require an enormous effort” to replace East-West animosity with cooperation.

Although the Soviet officials declined to discuss details of Gorbachev’s itinerary, Arbatov denied reports that the Soviet leader would visit the Fifth Avenue apartment of Donald Trump, the billionaire Manhattan real estate tycoon.

“There must have been a misunderstanding,” Arbatov said. He said Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, probably would make stops at the New York Stock Exchange--a “symbol of capitalism”--and at one or more department stores.

“When you go to Macy’s or Bloomingdale’s, they don’t ask you what party you belong to,” he said. “The salesman just asks for cash or a credit card.”

The Soviet officials declined to speculate on Gorbachev’s address to the U.N. General Assembly, scheduled for delivery before the meeting with Reagan and Bush.