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During the Moscow summit in 1972, Nixon and Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the SALT I pact and in a joint communiqué pledged to refrain from "efforts to obtain unilateral advantage at the expense of the other, directly or indirectly." The high point of détente, in a literal sense, came in 1975, when Soviet and American spacemen linked up and shook hands 140 miles above the globe during a joint space mission. Meanwhile, troubles back on earth threatened to end the era of good feeling...
...objective are just about nil, since NATO is standing firm in insisting that the Soviets are the ones who must change their INF posture. Nonetheless, at a meeting in Moscow last week with Finnish Foreign Minister Paavo Väyrynen, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko once again echoed the refrain that the aim of U.S. military policy is to "lord it over other countries," meaning the West Europeans...
...negotiations as a way of inducing the West Europeans to postpone acceptance of the new missiles, thus missing the deadline that NATO had set for itself. "Both sides," Brezhnev declared during a visit to Bonn in November 1981, "should, for as long as the negotiations last, refrain from stationing new medium-range systems in Europe and from modernizing already existing ones...
...sole good athlete on a last-place team, had been allowed an astonishing amount of latitude over the years. At a time when a Memphis radio station was infuriating a bloated local boy, Elvis Presley, with a weight-mocking song called Just One More Jelly Doughnut, whose background refrain went, "He's gonna pop!" a Press-Scimitar columnist was actually begging in the paper for Elvis to give him a Cadillac. The singer was not moved...
...endlessly pursued by [her] parents' weeping"; for Marianne has left her comfortable home in England to come on a hopeless search and then long vigil for Willie. And she proceeds wanted, like Hardy's Tess, from one to the other of Willie Quinton's old acquaintances, repeating the refrain "I am going to have Willie's baby," which resounds like a death knell across rural Ireland...