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Early this year, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott was in the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan, near the Iranian border, assessing Soviet policy in the tumultuous Middle East. A few months later, he was on the other side of Iran, flying over the Persian Gulf in an Omani air force helicopter, watching Iranian warships steaming out of the port city of Bandar Abbas. When border tensions between Iraq and Iran erupted into a full-scale war four weeks ago, Talbott was back at his desk in Washington. But he found that his recent opportunity to "look at Iran from both sides," literally...
Reporter-Researcher Tam Martinides Gray, who researched this week's story, has worked with Talbott on several diplomatic assignments during the past two years. Their most recent project was an account last month of U.S. efforts to preserve the oil flow from the Persian Gulf, a story that Gray calls a preamble to this week's cover. Gray started at TIME as a picture researcher 20 years ago, and moved from images to words in 1976. Since then she has found, as Talbott has, that looking closely at Middle East politics reveals something more fascinating than the movements...
...other matters, the reality of America's diminishing authority in the world was reflected in the Administration's problems to date in securing the release of the hostages in Tehran, to reverse Soviet expansionism in Africa or in Afghanistan, or to bring influence to bear in the Persian Gulf...
Iraq also reported that 60 neutral ships trapped in the Shatt al-Arab waterway by the battle for Khorramshahr are now free to sail under the banner of the International Red Cross (IRC) into the Persian Gulf...
...predecessors. Be it in Cuba, where he tried to create his own missile crisis over the existence of a 15-year old Soviet combat brigade, be it in Iran, where he embraced the Shah and called him a man beloved by his people, be it in the Persian Gulf, where Carter stated without a gulp America's willingness to trade lives for oil, the Carter foreign policy has been disaster, brightened only by the Camp David summit. Young men born in 1960 and 1961 know this most clearly; called upon to register for the draft as a show of support...