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...June by Little, Brown & Co. Based on tape recordings made by former Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev during the last years of his life, the book was translated and edited by TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott and has introductions by Soviet Affairs Expert Edward Crankshaw and TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter...
...years before his death in 1971 and is a historical document of enormous value. The tapes were translated and edited by Strobe Talbott, who has served as TIME correspondent in Eastern Europe. In the introduction to The Last Testament, Diplomatic Editor and former Moscow Bureau Chief Jerrold L. Schecter reveals for the first time the circumstances under which Khrushchev recorded his memoirs. These revelations are previewed in TIME's excerpts. In addition, this week TIME's color pages include exclusive family-album photographs of Khrushchev at home. Selections from our material are being reprinted by 14 newspapers...
...taping began, Khrushchev's associates in the memoir project decided that it was time to act. Little, Brown and Time Inc. acquired the right to publish the first portion of the memoirs. In an introduction written for Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament, TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter, who was chief of the TIME-LIFE bureau in Moscow from 1968 until 1970, notes that: "Because these were the unsanctioned words of a deposed leader, the transcripts of the tapes were handled in much the same way as novels, poetry, and other 'underground' Soviet texts that reach...
Jerrold L. Schecter, now TIME'S diplomatic editor, was a Nieman fellow at Harvard ten years ago when he first met Henry Kissinger. Schecter took Kissinger's seminar on defense policy, and their paths have crossed many times since in such faraway places as Shanghai and Cairo. Before accompanying his former professor to Moscow this week, Schecter filed much of the material for our cover story on the peripatetic Secretary's brand of diplomacy...
...Schecter finds that the Secretary of State still bears a close personal resemblance to the Cambridge academic. "His ego is enormous, but his charm and grace are even greater. He likes to hear gossip about himself, he is complex, difficult and the best show in town." One element of the Kissinger act is to deflate formality. On President Nixon's trip to China, Kissinger brought on board the plane Vice Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua. In the press section, Kissinger told his guest: "That's Jerry Schecter of TIME. He's my favorite fiction writer...