Word: eves
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...served as a general coordinator of the San Francisco operation, negotiating TIME'S space at the Moscone Center convention site and arranging the venue for the 1,200-guest party that Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald and the editors of TIME will give on the eve of the convention...
Support for that notion seemed to come from photos of Sakharov and his wife Yelena Bonner that appeared in the West German tabloid Bild Zeitung on the eve of Mitterrand's visit. The newspaper explained that the pictures had been provided by Victor Louis, an English-speaking Soviet journalist who is widely believed to have KGB connections. One photo purports to show Sakharov strolling through a park in Gorky, the city 250 miles east of Moscow to which he has been exiled, on June 15. "Photos don't prove anything," Sakharov's stepdaughter Tatyana Yankelevich declared after...
...time of the first NSC meeting devoted to START, in April 1982, the State Department's idea of a straightforward trade-off between the MX and the SS-18 was dead, and the advocates of a low throw-weight ceiling seemed to have the upper hand. On the eve of the meeting, Perle circulated a paper that criticized State for advocating an approach that offered "the appearance but not the reality of significant limits on Soviet strategic power ... and [that] would drive the Administration to a repetition of past mistakes...
...eve of a May 3 NSC meeting, less than a week before the President was to unveil a proposal in a speech at his alma mater, Eureka College in Illinois, the Joint Chiefs shocked Weinberger and Perle by joining forces with the State Department on a common option. START, they proposed, should contain three limits: 850 missile launchers, 5,000 warheads on all strategic ballistic missiles (SLBMs and ICBMs), 2,500 warheads on ICBMS alone...
Approaching the screen adaptation of Malcolm Lowry's complex novel, one anticipated a worst-case scenario in every sense of the word. The last gloomily adventurous 24 hours of the onetime British consul in Cuernavaca, which begin on the Mexican Day of the Dead (and on the eve of World War II as well), are an invitation to the portentous. But for once the simplifying narrative imperatives of the screen and the imperatives of the talent assembled for the effort) have served a difficult book well. In recounting what is either an ascent to Calvary or a descent into...