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...Vance gave Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin a briefing on the proposal, Dobrynin commented pointedly that it seemed to have little to do with the Vladivostok accord, which the Soviet leadership was determined to enshrine in a new treaty. In Moscow, during a chilly "welcoming session" at the Kremlin, Brezhnev dwelt on the importance of consummating the Vladivostok accord as a precondition to further arms-control measures. Then, at the first business meeting, Gromyko hinted in his opening statement?before the Americans had even formally presented their proposal?that his government knew what was coming and would reject...
Sports and weather are only the two most glaring beats whose coverage is profoundly colored by the prophet motive. Fashion news is primarily about things that have not yet happened, and the writer who dwelt on the reportable facts of the present would be viewed as quaint. The book reviewer, though stuck with palpable volumes of the moment, is happiest when proclaiming how posterity will treat a work. The food critic verily feeds on the unreliable assumption that a future meal, whether in a restaurant or out of a recipe, will be as palatable as the past one. Political writers...
...SALT tersely as "the most important single foreign policy question" of his Administration. A SALT II failure, he warned, would be "disastrous." At the mid-term Democratic convention in Memphis, Carter promised that SALT II would require the Soviets "to destroy several hundred of their existing missiles." Brezhnev also dwelt on the topic last week, calling for a pact "without further procrastination...
...subdued Los Angeles Hilton ballroom, where only 200 turned out for what was billed as a "Democratic election celebration," Brown dwelt but briefly on his easy primary victory over token opposition (he rolled up a 79% vote to 4% for his closest
...those times there also dwelt in Valinor and Middle-earth many Elves. The greatest of these was a prince called Fëanor who shaped three famous jewels, called Silmarils, trapping the light of the sacred trees within them, that it might be imperishable. And Fëanor grew proud and greedy, and he longed to be free of the power of the Valar...