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When A.P. Correspondent George Krimsky flew out of Moscow last week, expelled on charges of spying for the CIA, TIME Bureau Chief Marsh Clark was among those at the airport to see him off. So was the U.S.S.R.'s leading political gadfly, Physicist Andrei Sakharov, whom Clark had just finished interviewing for this week's cover story. Says Clark: "The real reason for Krimsky's expulsion was his coverage of the dissidents." That explains why reporting on men like Sakharov is such a complex and at times hazardous affair. Clark adds: "Correspondents and KGB agents are well...
Staff Writer Patricia Blake, who wrote the story, is familiar with dissidence. A lifelong student of Russian literature and politics, she was the author of our cover story on the most famous dissenter of all, Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Feb. 25, 1974). "I found what Sakharov told Marsh Clark particularly moving," she says. "He breathes compassion...
...arms agreement. There are some Western diplomats in Moscow who are convinced that the Russian leadership fears the U.S. technological superiority in weaponry and thus may be just as eager as Carter to avoid a new race in arms development. At week's end, TIME Moscow Correspondent Marsh Clark reported that Moscow's U.S.A. Institute was working overtime in an attempt to fathom this puzzling new U.S. leader, but that relations between the two powers have generally improved since Carter's election. The flap over the Soviet dissidents, however, was seen by TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott...
Sakharov told TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark that he attributed the wave of repression to a Soviet attempt to "blackmail" Carter into silence on the human rights issue. Soviet Exile Andrei Amalrik told TIME Correspondent David Aikman in Holland that "the Soviet Union wants to see how tough Carter...
...that has changed suddenly. City kids are sticking close to their neighborhood playgrounds and community programs where they learned the fundamentals, and it shows in the current caliber of metropolitan teams. Brooklynite Ricky Free is Columbia's leading scorer while unsung Steve Grant and high-scoring Ricky Marsh led Manhattan over Penn in the Holiday Festival. Glenn Vickers is playing for Iona; Reggie Carter and Bernard Rencher have transferred to St. John's, while Bernard Tomlin and John Irving have switched over to Hofstra...