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...Hyland since 1969, and Hyland had been scrutinizing the Soviet leadership for 15 years before that. His career as a Kremlinologist has spanned six administrations and carried him to the upper echelons of the CIA, the State Department and the NSC. This month Hyland, 48, retired. TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden reports on one of the men who know the Russians best...
Much of last week's story took place in Washington and was reported by Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott and State Department Correspondent Christopher Ogden. Discovered Ogden: "This week there finally is palpable excitement in the Administration that the Geneva conference could become a reality." To round out our reporting, Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff and TIME'S David Halevy assessed the mood in Israel, while TIME'S Dean Brelis and Abu Said Abu Rish interviewed Palestinian leaders in Beirut...
Surely, the Administration was fortunate that the Israeli view of its aims turned from Holocaust hostility to acceptance (if grudging) as rapidly as it did. Reports Correspondent Ogden: "The Administration says it was all planned that way, but that is not precisely true. They knew there would be anger in Israel at first, and they hoped it would help push things forward, but they were not certain how well it would work. There was design, and some skill, involved in this strategy. But there was also luck that it fell in place as well as it seems to have...
Vance's reception in Peking, reported TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden, was polite but noticeably restrained. The airport greeting was a crisp handshake from Foreign Minister Huang Hua and Huang Chen, chief of Peking's liaison office in Washington: no band, no honor guard. On the drive into the city, Vance's Red Flag limousine passed thousands of cheering demonstrators-who, as it turned out, were celebrating, for the third day in a row, the successful completion of the awaited party Congress...
President Jimmy Carter discussed his foreign policy with TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald, Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey, White House Correspondent Stanley Cloud, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott and State Department Correspondent Chris Ogden. Excerpts from the interview...