Word: fainted
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Certainly there was no hard evidence to support the rumors that Brezhnev was on the brink of physical or political disablement. Nonetheless, a few faint signs and portents over the past two months pointed to a possible diminution of Brezhnev's vigor and perhaps even of his commanding position in the Kremlin. Some observers at the Vladivostok summit meeting with Gerald Ford thought that Brezhnev was not his usual doughty, ebullient self. Although he held up well during his initial seven-hour meeting with the U.S. President, he slept late the following day and looked peaked. In Paris...
...Faint New Hope. Fahmy and Gamassy went to Moscow, partly in hope of convincing Brezhnev that the Soviet Union should resume large-scale arms shipments to Egypt. Since the end of the October war, the Soviets have poured massive supplies of arms into Syria, while Israel, thanks to the U.S., has more than replaced its matériel losses. Egypt, on the other hand, has been left without adequate replacements for its Russian-made arms. One condition Moscow sets for arms shipments: a return of Soviet advisers to Egypt...
With the Brezhnev visit now delayed indefinitely, there is a new opportunity for Kissinger to push ahead with talks leading to a further pullback of Israeli troops on the Sinai and Golan fronts. Cairo's mood last week reflected a faint new hope that he might succeed...
These were the first faint whiffs of something that could be very new and very good for the presidency and for America. For 22 years the office of the vice presidency has been cast in the images of two singular men-Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson. For eight years Nixon was the Vice President. He was not fully trusted by Eisenhower and there was certainly little real affection between them. Even as Vice President, Nixon was a remote and imperial figure, establishing elaborate protocol safeguards as he moved around Congress and the White House...
...could contaminate Titan with earthly bugs, Pioneer will come no closer than 12,000 miles. Finally, the spacecraft will head out of the solar system, sending back signals that should continue at least until it reaches the orbit of Uranus (in 1985). After that the signals will be so faint that not even the largest antennas on earth will be able to pick them...