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Anyone who reads has toured parts of this fun house before. Budd Schulberg and Nathanael West spurned it in novels. Elderly actresses and directors have told gaudy lies to their tape recorders. What Author Otto Friedrich contributes in City of Nets (Harper & Row; 512 pages; $25) is a lucid, darkly funny recounting that threads the loopy stories and the titanic egos into a coherent narrative. Friedrich, a TIME senior writer, clearly cherishes the surreal nuttiness of Hollywood's great days...
West European leaders acknowledge that the terrorist threat to their countries cannot be solved without a concerted effort. The day after Besse's murder, French Interior Minister Pasqua and his West German counterpart, Friedrich Zimmermann, agreed in a two-hour meeting to begin exchanging members of their antiterrorist liaison teams in an attempt to develop a regular flow of information between the two countries...
SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, George J. Church, Gerald Clarke, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, John Leo, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...
Administration: Suzanne Davis, Emily Friedrich, Demetra Kosters, Susan Lynd News Desks: Frances Fiorino, Waits L. May III, Jacalyn McConnell, David Richardson, Susanna Mary Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Ann Drury Wellford, Jean R. White, Arturo Yaez
Senior Writer Otto Friedrich mined some 7,500 words from the book's 272 pages to produce the compelling story that appears in this week's issue. For Reporter-Researcher Sally Donnelly, the task of verifying the story was made even more challenging by the fact that the author could not be reached. Donnelly, who majored in Soviet studies at the London School of Economics, was struck by the relentlessness and brutality of the KGB. "But in their own way," she notes, "Bonner and Sakharov are every bit as relentless in fighting the system." Friedrich agrees: "It is a story...