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Grenouille doesn't just detect scents--he digests them, dissects them, and then preserves the essence of their individual components in the redolent storehouse of his mind. And whether smells are fresh and sweet or spoiled and foul, Grenouille devours them all with equal delight...
...that the incessant squabbling within American negotiating teams between moderates and hard-liners makes progress glacially slow. At recent bargaining sessions, says one well-placed U.S.S.R. official, the tensions and disagreements on the American side were "if not right out in the open, then very easy for us to detect." Some of Reagan's advisers are dissatisfied too, and had begun to discuss opening some sort of "back channel" to Moscow before Gorbachev in effect proposed the ultimate back channel, one running through the top leaders...
...Secret Service would not confirm the account, but the White House apparently is equipped with secret sensors that can detect tiny amounts of radioactivity. The high technology has a good purpose. A nuclear device in this era of refined mischief could be as small as a fountain...
Customs officials will check the bags at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport, where almost all diplomatic mail arrives as air freight. Eventually, provisions will be made to inspect pouches arriving by sea, train or automobile from third countries. The metal detectors, however, have one major flaw: they cannot detect whether any plastic explosives are packed in the diplomatic pouches...
Some Western officials tried to find encouraging signs from the meeting. British diplomats claimed to detect new realism in the summit's debates because the conferees rejected a Cuban proposal to praise the Soviet Union's support for nonaligned nations. But the Reagan Administration did not draw such fine distinctions. Said State Department Spokesman Charles Redman: "The litany of arbitrary and unfounded charges is both highly offensive and counterproductive...