Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distraught Soviets summoned building guards and demanded an explanation. What had happened to their countryman and boss, Arkady Shevchenko? He was a ranking Soviet diplomat, a former top adviser to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and, for the past five years Under Secretary-General of the U.N., one of Kurt Waldheim's senior deputies. The two Soviets were told that the office had in fact been sealed at Shevchenko's own request the night before. More alarmed than ever, Shevchenko's assistants hurried to their real headquarters, the Soviet mission on East 67th Street in Manhattan...
...dossier and a deep scar on his head when, as Ambassador to Pakistan in 1961, he took up with his driver's wife. The chauffeur discovered the liaison. Rushing into the Ambassador's office, where Kapitsa was using his couch as a bed, the infuriated husband clouted the diplomat on the head with a crowbar. He might have killed Kapitsa if aides had not come to his rescue. But the incident was forgiven because Kapitsa's expertise was needed...
...following pages, TIME presents the first of two excerpts from Breaking with Moscow, carrying Shevchenko from his early days as a diplomat through his participation on the edges of the summit meeting between Brezhnev and Richard Nixon...
...same time, the Soviets unveiled their negotiating team. It will be led by Victor Karpov, a veteran diplomat who was his country's chief negotiator in both the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) at the end of the Carter Administration and the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) during the first Reagan term. His American counterpart in the upcoming discussions will be Washington Attorney Max Kampelman...
...leadership crisis. In addition, there is domestic business to attend to: the Central Committee is reportedly eager to schedule the 27th Party Congress for some time later this year, a weighty occasion that would demand a high public profile on the part of the leadership. But as a Scandinavian diplomat notes, "they cannot prepare such an important event without knowing who the General Secretary of the party will...