Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second was the report on Cuba by TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who spent eleven days on the island. Talbott gathered notes on the Soviet presence, spoke with Cubans about Africa, and met with Fidel Castro for 2½ hours of freewheeling discussion. "Most heads of state I've encountered seem weighted down by their jobs," reports Talbott. "Not the Cuban Premier. He obviously has a lot of fun being Fidel Castro-and he does it well...
...another of those seesaw weeks in U.S.-Soviet relations. First, Jimmy Carter spoke soothingly at a press conference of his "deep belief that the underlying relationship between ourselves and the Soviets is stable" and that he and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev want "to have better friendship." Next, both governments calmly carried out a trade: the U.S. released two accused Soviet spies from jail in New Jersey, while the Soviets set free an American charged with currency violations in Moscow. But then Soviet authorities suddenly summoned two American reporters to a Moscow court and charged them with "denigrating the honor...
...Later he spoke more bluntly. "I had to identify the bodies," he said. "I would not have treated an animal in the way these people were treated...
MacArthur at sixty, on the eve of his great war command, was, I found, still a spectacle. His hands trembled; his voice sometimes squeaked. But he paced, and roared, and pointed, and pounded, and stabbed with his cigar, and spoke with an intelligence and a magniloquence and a force that overwhelmed. He was holding himself...
...like the Nuremberg trials either. But the trials had been Roosevelt's idea. As he talked about Roosevelt, his own admiration and exasperation came through. He picked out Roosevelt's vast geographical knowledge as the President's most extraordinary quality, and then, with irritation, spoke of the difficulty of pinning Roosevelt down to specifics. the stubbornness of Roosevelt, his own inability to get clear instruction from him. We finally sat down to lunch and Grover said flatly that since we were forbidden to talk politics at Ike's military headquarters, we were here to talk politics...