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Still, in one particular form of journalism--Washington-based newspaper coverage of the decisions, motives and actions of major governmental figures--Reston was for two decades after World War II a truly dominant figure. When the new President, John Kennedy, came out of a harrowing meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1961, he went straight to a prearranged session with Reston to discuss Khrushchev's apparent threat of a nuclear showdown. In the months between that meeting and the Cuban missile crisis, Reston's reporting played the role it often had since the 1940s: it was the most authoritative...
...Better get your last licks in soon, however. The beluga sturgeon that produce the world's best caviar are under enormous pressure from overfishing, dam building and pollution by the former Soviet republics that ring the Caspian Sea. Most species of sturgeon are in decline?some by as much as 90%?and those native to the Caspian appear doomed. Environmental groups have petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to put beluga on the endangered-species list?a move that would cut off supply to the world's largest market of consumers. (Americans swallow up to 80% of the annual...
...still going strong after 35 years on the job - keeps him in the international mix. Fluent in English, French and German, but not Russian - "I speak very bad Russian, but without an accent, and the Russians consider that a provocation" - he maintains a close relationship with the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. "He saw the collapse of East Germany as a tidal wave that could only be stopped by war, which he did not want," Ustinov says. "He believed democratic reform was possible within the framework of the Soviet system, which of course it wasn't." Of the current Russian...
Consistency has earned the No. 1 Crimson the respect of its opponents. Princeton coach Jeff Kampersal likened the Crimson to the Soviet Union’s Red Army teams after watching tapes of Harvard’s power play in preparation for Saturday’s game...
...Contra Committee. "He deals with issues, not personalities. And he doesn't run to the cameras." Cheney's reputation during his days on the Hill was for blandness. In his book The Ambition and The Power, John M. Barry recounts the time a group of House members visiting the Soviet Union amused themselves by taking a do-it-yourself psychoanalytic test. Cheney added up his score and discovered that the one profession to which he was particularly well suited was funeral director...