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...resume their old lives, if they would spy for the West. The offers went to devoted family men who would not imperil their kin. This poignant tale of one such impersonation provides a ground-level view of four dark decades, from the Stalinist '30s to the imperceptibly detentist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Apr. 14, 1986 | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...archconservative political organizer. In fact, after Reagan's election, when it was thought that the choice for Secretary of State had come down to Haig and Shultz, Ultra-Conservative Brewer Joseph Coors and others mobilized a campaign for Haig, who was considered to be less of a "detentist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shultz: Thinker and Doer | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

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