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Russia's ranking America watcher is probably Yuri Arbatov, head of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science's one-year-old Institute of American Studies. From his office in a renovated 18th century mansion in Moscow, Arbatov presides over a research staff of some 50 youngish, English-speaking specialists, a growing library, and space for a prestigious, soon-to-be-installed computer. The staff is made up of economists, historians, lawyers, foreign affairs specialists and social scientists, including a demographer. Anatoly Gromyko, son of the Soviet Foreign Minister and author of a book on the Kennedy Administration...
Arbatov, 45, is a stocky, heavy-eyed journalist-administrator who smiles easily and speaks idiomatic English. He was reportedly picked for his job because he cultivated both party members (he is one) and scholars-two groups that do not always agree in Russia. Arbatov has, as he says, "done his homework" on the U.S. Currently he is doing some firsthand research by traveling in the U.S. and talking with journalists, businessmen (California's Norton Simon, Litton Industries' Charles-"Tex"-Thornton), and even U.S. Russia watchers (Columbia's Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harvard's Merle Fainsod). He participated...
Because of his competitive, hard-driving temperament, David English, as sociate editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express, is admiringly referred to as a "flyer." That temperament served English well when he and a team of top Express reporters set out to produce a book on the 1968 U.S. presidential election. Divided They Stand (Prentice-Hall, $6.95) is not only the first full-length study of that memorable race. It is also brisk, readable and sharply focused, with a detached perspective that injects freshness into familiar events...
...English deployed his men before the New Hampshire primary and pushed them almost to rebellion in his determination to beat out a rival team dispatched by the London Sunday Times...
...Express reporters covered all the candidates, examined the antiwar sentiment and racial conflict that lay be hind the election. Working from his reporters' lengthy files, English knocked out a rough draft of half the book in New York before Election Day. He shifted to London for seven weeks of fevered final writing, much of the time locked in a room with his closest collaborator, Correspondent Richard Kilian. "We thought we were never going to finish," English says...