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...following pages TIME begins its excerpts of the second volume of Kissinger's memoirs, Years of Upheaval, to be published March 25 by Little, Brown (1,283 pages; '$24.95). The book covers Nixon's foreshortened second term, the period from January 1973 to his resignation in August 1974. This week's excerpt describes the Middle East war of 1973; a nerve-racking confrontation with the Soviet Union that led to a worldwide alert of U.S. military forces; the plight of an Egyptian army trapped in the desert and facing starvation; and Kissinger's now renowned "shuttle diplomacy, "which sometimes involved...
...insight into a tormented President who, always fearing catastrophe, ultimately brought it on himself; profiles Nixon's closest aides, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, as well as the current Secretary of State, Alexander Haig; and tells of the dramatic death throes of Nixon's Administration. The third and last excerpt covers the dual dilemmas of competition and coexistence with the Soviet Union; memorable Kissinger encounters with the leaders of America's principal adversaries, Leonid Brezhnev and Mao Tse-tung; and some maxims culled from a career in statecraft...