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Just before the closing of this week's cover story, which consists of excerpts from a new book by a top Soviet diplomatic defector, TIME's art department faced an urgent problem: it needed shots of Soviet leaders of the 1950s and '60s, plus key events in U.S.-Soviet relations of that period. Within a few hours, almost 200 color and black-and-white photographs arrived. Artist Daniel Maffia used many of these as reference material to guide him in creating the illustrations that accompany the story...
Five days later the world learned what the Soviets had immediately suspected. SOVIET CITIZEN, WALDHEIM AIDE, DEFECTS AT U.N., read the headline over the front-page story in the New York Times. Shevchenko was his country's highest-ranking diplomatic defector since World War II. At 47 he was already a 22-year veteran of the Soviet foreign service, and he had risen quickly in its ranks. Far more important than his highly visible assignment in New York was the one that occupied him from late 1970 until early 1973 when, as an adviser to Gromyko, he was able...
...acre area around the Korean truce village of Panmunjom has been a haven from gunfire, if not from violence, since the 1953 Korean armistice. But that record was shattered last week by a shootout over a Soviet defector in the Joint Security Area. An American G.I., Michael Burgoyne, 20, of Portland, Mich., was wounded in the melee. A South Korean soldier and as many as three North Koreans were killed...
...Vasiliy Matuzok, 22, a Soviet tour guide on a group visit to the security area, who reportedly bolted toward a 35-member United Nations security unit. Between 20 and 30 North Korean soldiers crossed into U.N. territory while firing at the escapee, and the U.N. troops shot back. The defector was later reported to be in the care of U.S. military authorities in Seoul, 25 miles away. The incident cast a minor chill on a recent burgeoning of good will between the two Koreas. Only days earlier, the famous bargaining table at Panmunjom had been the scene of warm grins...
...owns the French weekly L 'Express and an American supermarket empire, has crusaded for years urging Western journalists to study disinformation techniques. To prepare a defense for the Spiegel trial, he solicited testimony from students of Soviet actions in West Germany, Britain and the U.S., including a Czech defector, General Jan Sejna, whose public remarks were the basis for the assertions about Strauss and Spiegel. Among other potential witnesses: a Soviet bloc defector who was involved in efforts to defame Strauss, and George town University Professor Roy Godson, author of a recent book on Soviet disinformation. Goldsmith said last...