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When Leonid Brezhnev died last week, TIME's staff went to work with the unaccustomed help of months of planning...
...dozen TIME printing plants in September. But the preparation could provide no more than a framework into which the week's news and analysis would be set. One extraordinary example: an exclusive TIME interview last Friday with a KGB defector, now in British hands, who tells how Brezhnev overruled KGB advice about Afghanistan, and how a bloody coup followed...
TIME, of course, has long tracked Brezhnev's career; he has appeared on 15 covers. His first private interview with U.S. journalists was granted to a TIME team led by Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald and Managing Editor Ray Cave...
...sense, the current cover project started in 1978 when Associate Editor Patricia Blake, a Soviet specialist, wrote the first of her several versions of the Brezhnev obituary...
Last spring, at the direction of Assistant Managing Editor Ronald Kriss, hundreds of pages of reporting on Brezhnev and the succession began to arrive from correspondents, notably Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof, Washington Correspondent Bruce Nelan, who had just returned from Moscow, and Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who had translated Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs...