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Even a moderately positive signal of Soviet willingness to explore new avenues of negotiation would boost the influence of arms-control moderates. Such a sign would not necessarily or even probably indicate a major turn-around in Soviet attitudes toward the U.S. Indeed, a Western diplomat in Moscow cautioned that "it is probably a mistake to build a universal field theory" around the outcome of this week's meeting, whatever it turns out to be. But an upbeat response would at least indicate that the Soviets have decided to abandon their present policy of icy silence. Said Assistant Secretary...
...remorselessly accumulating array of Soviet internal problems, ranging from agricultural failure to shrinking productivity to endemic corruption. Recent experience has been that East-West tensions fester when the Soviet leadership withdraws into a shell. The sight of Andrei Gromyko's familiar face in the U.S. may be a signal that the Kremlin is aware of the need for a new and healthier equilibrium...
...visit the old man in his village in the Orinoco delta. They have a pleasant lunch, but when Naipaul returns to Caracas he finds a telegram from Bogart, a note he had missed that morning, which asks him to cancel his visit. Maybe it should have been a signal to Naipaul that the thousands of air-miles and the hundreds of pages which have come between him and the room at the BBC form an unbridgeable...
...YORK--"The Star-Spangled Banner" wafted through the new stadium at Baker Field to signal the beginning of the Harvard-Columbia football game Saturday afternoon. At the same time, a breeze off the Hudson River slowly ruffled the Ivy League schools' flags, arranged in a row behind the north goalpost. One by one the banners stirred, until finally all of them, and the American flag, were visible to the 10,500 people in the stands...
...looked like a real football game, a contest that would signal the coming of fall. It was even televised, and the truck with the WGBH camera on it went lumbering along the sidelines throughout. The brand-new Lawrence A. Wien Stadium at Baker Field, all white and Columbia blue, almost sparkled in the sunshine. The assembled fans did their best to appear unimpressed, but the return of football to Manhattan after a 17-month absence put a note of hope into...