Word: schecters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After returning from a two-year sojourn in Moscow, friends would always ask Steven C. Schecter '78 and his family about their experiences in the Soviet Union. It got to the point where the family members were interrupting each other so much that none of them could get a word in edgewise. They finally decided to resolve their problem by writing a book that would tell the story from all of their various viewpoints...
...result, An American Family in Moscow, is the seven Schecter's account of their experiences in the Soviet capital from 1968 to 1970 while the father, Jerrold Schecter, was a time correspondent there. Unlike the average American family in the Soviet Union, which retreats into its own artificial Western womb, the Schecter family tried to immerse itself in Soviet life as fully as possible. Now six years later, reclining leisurely in his Claverly suite and surrounded by posters of Lenin and other Russian souvenirs, Steve Schecter reminisces about his days in Moscow...
...Acting Premier Hua Kuo-feng, Foreign Minister Ch'iao Kuan-hua and a group of 350 Chinese. There was no military guard to greet Nixon and his entourage of 20, including 15 Secret Service men (20 journalists were also along, among them TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, who was with Nixon on his previous trip to China). Nixon was whisked away in a black "Red Flag" limousine to the same government guest house in Peking where he stayed...
...Hong Kong Bureau Chief Roy Rowan spent a week on board the Mayaguez after the ship was rescued from the Cambodians, taping the recollections of captain and crew. During a six-week "vacation" he wrote from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m. to produce The Four Days of Mayaguez. Jerrold Schecter, head of our Moscow bureau from 1968 to 1970 and now TIME'S diplomatic editor, enlisted not only his wife but their five children to write An American Family in Moscow...
...plans to "follow Dr. Moynihan either to Harvard or out of Government" (see story following page). Though he realizes he will probably not be in office next year no matter who is elected, he wants to stay on the job for 1976. TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter reports: "Kissinger sees himself as holding the structure of the nation's foreign policy together, and he is in no position to hand over foreign policy to a successor now. He fears the impact of his leaving would contribute to the sense of drift; he will stay as long...