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...help report this week's story on the new hard line in U.S.-Soviet relations, Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof studied the record of the past and consulted dozens of Soviet and Western sources. He also drew on his on-the-scene experience of watching Gromyko at numerous Kremlin functions, including the receptions for foreign statesmen that followed the funerals of Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov. On those occasions, he reports, Gromyko lingered longer with East bloc allies and exchanged only perfunctory greetings with Western leaders. "The exception," Amfitheatrof notes, "was Britain's Margaret Thatcher, who seemed able...
...John Kohan. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof /Moscow and Douglas Brew/Washington...
...home downing a glass of Instant Breakfast. As he made ready to redeploy the bureau's staff, TIME correspondents and stringers around the world were also responding, including those in Washington, Colorado Springs, Geneva and Eastern Europe. At the heart of the controversy, Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof was surprised to find the issue being down-played to the point of invisibility. Notes he: "A story that was Page One everywhere else was on the last page of Pravda." In California, where the story was very big news, Correspondent Steven Holmes, who has reported on the operations...
...chemical weapons was encouraging, but it is too soon to make any sure judgments. Says a senior Disarmament Agency official: "Let's see how they follow up. The Soviets have a way of making a two-step look like a ballet." -By Evan Thomas. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/ Moscow and Barrett Seaman/ Washington...
...pass this awesome legacy to an untried younger generation, as if the transfer were somehow not inevitable. But the paradox remains that the longer the old men cling to power, the more they endanger the very thing they have sought to preserve: stability. ? ByJohn Kohan. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof /Moscow and Raji Samghabadi/New York, with other bureaus