Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe. NATO plans to install 572 medium-range nuclear missiles by 1983, while the Soviets have already deployed about 200 SS-20s targeted on "Western Europe and are continuing to add them at a rate of about one a week. On the eve of the summit Carter sent Schmidt a harsh letter cautioning him against any freeze. Schmidt replied, in a letter described by aides as "dripping with irony and sarcasm," that he had no intention of making such a move. After both leaders arrived in Venice, they met for 90 min. in Carter...
...order. The 72-island chain was, after all, the model for James Michener's Bali Ha'i in Tales of the South Pacific, later turned into a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Now, after 74 years of joint British-French colonial rule and on the eve of independence, the archipelago and its 100,000 inhabitants are experiencing their first political upheaval...
They frequently crash. In Townies a young drifter murders a college girl, less out of rage than helplessness; her announcement that she would no longer sleep with him in her dorm room makes him strike out at his own rejection-filled life. In Killings a man on the eve of graduate school is fatally shot by his girlfriend's estranged husband. A month later the father's grief still grows: "It was a cool summer night; he thought vaguely of the Red Sox, did not even know if they were at home tonight; since it happened...
...move view fast to write a book, primarily to present my point of view of the last President years- its impact on myself, the impact on Israel of President Sadat's the my encounters with President Carter. I'll have to treat the situation almost like the eve of elections and present my platform. I confess I don't have all the answers. But people are asking what I propose, and I have to answer...
Moscow had wasted no time in trying to get on the good side of the post-Tito government. On the eve of the funeral, Brezhnev and his Kremlin party sat down with Doronjski and Koliševski for what Tass, the Soviet news agency, called a "warm, comradely" meeting. China, which under Mao Tse-tung had long condemned Tito's "revisionism," similarly acted almost as though it had never differed with him. The first major head of government to arrive in Belgrade was Chairman Hua Guofeng, who grandly praised Tito for "great contributions to the proletarian revolution...