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Friends and former colleagues think Poindexter was badly miscast at the NSC. "He is a nuclear physicist, an exemplary military man and a brilliant technician," says one NSC veteran. "In other words, an ideal No. 2 or 3." A close observer asserts the admiral "could write a tough computer note to North, but he had trouble resisting Ollie's pleading in person. The combination of personal softness and political inexperience is what did him in." The irony, a Navy colleague remarks, is that "he didn't want to go to the NSC in the first place. He wanted to command...
Because he publicly criticized the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov spent nearly seven years of internal exile in the closed city of Gorky. At a ceremony in Moscow last week inducting him into the French Academy of Sciences, Sakharov, who was allowed to return home last December, accused fellow members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences of spreading "cock-and-bull stories" about his supposedly "tranquil life" in Gorky. On the contrary, he said, he suffered psychological torture and frequent harassment while in exile. Despite the current policy of glasnost (openness), a newspaper account of the ceremony...
CHARLES P. SLICHTER '45: A physicist at the University of Illinois's Center for Advanced Study, he is one of two academics on the Harvard Corporation. He was elected to the Corporation...
While Richard von Weizsacker was on the front, drafted at the age of 18, his father, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, was working in the foreign ministry, first as a chief diplomat, and later as an ambassador to the Vatican. His brother, Karl Fredrich, was a prominent physicist, who was at work for the Nazi regime in attempting to develop an atom bomb...
...history, and over the years TIME has tried to capture / historical perspective through the recollections of noteworthy figures who influence the events we report. Among the authors whose chronicles have appeared in these pages: Anwar Sadat, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Alexander Haig and Dissident Elena Bonner, the wife of Physicist Andrei Sakharov. This week TIME's cover story, a lengthy excerpt from Chinese Author Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai, is a memoir of a very different kind. History will record not that the author shaped large events but that she simply survived to write a gripping personal...