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...former TIME Moscow bureau chief and a veteran of Richard Nixon's trips to Russia and China in 1972, Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter is as familiar with the Marxist way of life as anyone on our staff. He added a tropical socialist stamp to his passport recently as one of 29 journalists traveling to Cuba with Senators Jacob Javits and Claiborne Pell and remained on the island after the Senators' departure to report this week's World story on the status of Fidel Castro's revolutionary experiment...
...What struck me most about Cuban socialism," says Schecter, "is that it seems informal compared with China and the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Despite strong totalitarian control, the presence of police and armed forces in the streets is not as apparent as in other socialist countries." Cuban authorities went out of their way to smooth the visit of Schecter and his colleagues, allowing the newsmen to fly in directly from Miami despite the absence of U.S.-Cuban diplomatic relations and providing them with special telex facilities. The citizen on the street proved equally genial. "On a walking tour...
...reciprocate, Schecter presented Castro with a copy of Khrushchev Remembers, the Soviet leader's memoirs in which the Cuban Premier figures prominently, but failed-not for lack of trying -to lure Sports Buff Castro into a basketball game. "I had the feeling," concluded Schecter on returning home, "not so much of the heavy hand of socialism as of meeting a family member who had rebelled and wanted to rejoin the clan with respect and not be reminded of his or our mistakes...
...with a massive five-year $7.5 billion plan for U.S. military aid to Israel. After meetings with Defense Secretary James Schlesinger and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Peres described himself as "encouraged" over getting the bulk of his requests. Before returning home he talked with TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter about Middle East developments that bear on his requests. Excerpts of his views...
Defense Secretary James Schlesinger was asked by TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter to recount the Department of Defense's role in the decisions to ship U.S. arms to Israel during the Yom Kippur War. The Defense Secretary's version of that critical week's decisive events...