Word: caving
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Unlike their Western counterparts, Soviet leaders almost never meet with foreign journalists. One of the rare exceptions occurred in 1979, when Leonid Brezhnev received Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave and Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan for a formal interview. Last week, at the same long Kremlin table, aided by the same translator, the same three editors became the first Western newsmen to meet with Mikhail Gorbachev. What was new was the vigor and directness of the host. "Instead of delay, there was a definite aura of efficiency," said Cave. "The session...
...Grunwald's answer: "We are not a monopoly. We do try for expansion, but we do not try for hegemony.") At one point, after a complicated question, Gorbachev said, "Do you think we're never going to meet again, so you are going to pile everything into one interview?" Cave's response: "Well, since we are going to meet again, I think we could stop now." Gorbachev laughed and answered the question...
TIME had first applied for the interview last March. Still, it came as a surprise on Saturday morning, Aug. 24, when Grunwald received an urgent phone call from a Soviet diplomat. The question: Could he, Cave and Duncan be in Moscow by Monday for an interview with Gorbachev? Visas? No problem. Everything would be taken care of. Indeed it was. Soviet officials smoothly whisked the TIME group through Moscow airport's tight security...
...General Secretary of the Communist Party had never met with Western journalists for a face-to-face interview. Now he has granted that first interview, a remarkably detailed, frank and far-ranging one, to a group from TIME: Henry A. Grunwald, editor in chief of Time Inc.; Ray Cave, managing editor of TIME; Richard Duncan, chief of correspondents; Moscow Bureau Chief James O. Jackson; and the Moscow Bureau's Felix Rosenthal. Their report...
...life. His reissued novels, Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill, sold more than 10,000 copies each. Martin's current favorite is the late Wyndham Lewis, a novelist and critic whose work, & said T.S. Eliot, combined "the thought of the modern and the energy of the cave man." Lewis also dabbled in art. To Poet Edith Sitwell, his pictures seemed "to have been painted by a mailed fist in a cotton glove...