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...suckers for style as far as Soviet leaders are concerned. I remember how we had an NSC briefing on Nikita Khrushchev back when he came to power in the '50s. We were told that he was going to be a temporary man because he drank too much, wore ill-fitting clothes, spoke bad Russian and had boorish manners...
...Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Since then, every U.S. President has held a summit with his Soviet counterpart. Some have been successful: at the 1972 Nixon-Brezhnev conference, the two leaders signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation treaty, initiating a brief era of detente. Others have been less so: Nikita Khrushchev decided that John Kennedy would be a pushover after meeting him in Vienna in 1961 and a year later began installing nuclear missiles in Cuba; just six months after Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev embraced in Vienna in 1979, Soviet tanks rolled into Afghanistan. Summitry is obviously a risky...
...thing the West does know about the Soviet Union is that the people who run it cling to their posts either until their comrades turn against them and throw them out, as happened with Georgi Malenkov and Nikita Khrushchev, or until Comrade Death intervenes, as occurred with Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and, last week, with Konstantin Chernenko. One of the more ironic flaws of the Soviet system is that while it is dedicated to the acquisition, consolidation and extension of power, while it prides itself on discipline and the subordination of the individual to the institution...
...addition to covering and analyzing the week's news, TIME occasionally offers its readers a bonus: an advance look at the memoirs of historic figures. Nikita Khrushchev, Anwar Sadat, Henry Kissinger and Jimmy Carter are among the world leaders whose books have been excerpted in the magazine. The current selection is something of a break with tradition: the author, Soviet Defector Arkady Shevchenko, was virtually unknown outside diplomatic and political circles. Only with the sensational revelations in his new book, Breaking with Moscow, does he emerge from the shadowy world of superpower espionage. Last week's eleven-page excerpt carried...
...excerpts were chosen by TIME's Washington bureau chief, Strobe Talbott, who translated and edited the memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev. The latest project required a special approach, Talbott says, "precisely because it does come from the world of espionage, where deception and illusion are commonplace. Those of us working on the project thought it important to verify the bona fides of the author and, as far as it was possible, his story." As State Department correspondent and diplomatic correspondent during the 1970s, Talbott had covered stories about defectors, agents and double agents--and the tricky business of telling them apart...