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This week's project was directed, as were TIME's previous excerpts from books by Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Alexander Haig, Theodore H. White and Soviet Defector Arkady Shevchenko, by Executive Editor Ronald Kriss. "Before we choose a book to excerpt," says Kriss, "we always ask: Does it enlarge our knowledge of history; does it give us new insight into the way our world works?" Bonner's book combines both deeply personal and broadly historical elements. Says Kriss: "It is a story of two people living in terrible isolation, but also waging a heroic fight against a vast and monolithic...
Howard wasn't the only defector last week. While the Soviets gained a spy, the U.S. took in a husband-and-wife high-wire duo from the prestigious Moscow Circus. Bertalina Kazakova and Nikolai Nikolsky walked into the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires last week and are now in Miami, where they may soon be hearing from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus...
...that lets them shape the deals they would merely flyspeck as lawyers and earn even more exorbitant salaries. Legal publications are filled with advice on how to soothe unhappy rookies. Business is booming for legal headhunters, who can charge $20,000 and more in fees to replace a single defector...
...American defector John Smith surfaced in Moscow in 1967 and wrote stories in the official press saying he had been a CIA agent, a claim that U.S. officials denied...
Czechoslovakia's best-known defector went home last week. Eleven years after leaving her homeland, Tennis Superstar Martina Navratilova, 29, headed the top-seeded U.S. team as it arrived in Prague for the Federation Cup, the women's equivalent of the all-male Davis Cup. Local media ignored her, but the applause that greeted her appearance at the opening ceremonies -- where she wept during the playing of the national anthem -- more than compensated. "I think it showed that the people here still remember me and that they like me," she told a press conference. "Not because I have come back...