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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter from the Publisher | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...internal affairs of Africa." Zbigniew Brzezinski has denounced the Cubans as "international marauders" who are doing the Kremlin's dirty work in the Third World. But Premier Fidel Castro's escalating military involvement in Africa has some homegrown and homefront benefits, as TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott discovered on an eleven-day visit to Cuba. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Comrade Fidel Wants You | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

Travolta does have a kind of endearing look about him and some might even dare to say there is some hint of talent beneath that flashy strobe-light exterior, which made its debut in Saturday Night Fever and is bound to make a few more starry-eyed fans in Grease and then who knows...Rumor has it that producers Robert Stigwood and Allan Carr held Grease until Travolta made his claim to fame in Saturday Night Fever. They apparently believed that Grease could be a bigger box office hit because everyone would be going to see Travolta, and not some...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: The '50s Were Never Like This | 7/7/1978 | See Source »

...think of their country's current political and military role in Africa? New York's Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz, while on a fact-finding visit to Cuba, met with a group of 16 students at the University of Havana. The three-hour session, reports TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, taught Solarz a bit more about life in present-day Cuba than his hosts had intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Display of Groupthink | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

Before leaving Washington for Africa and the Soviet Union, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance sat down over breakfast with TIME Correspondents Strobe Talbott and Christopher Ogden to talk about himself and the Carter Administration's foreign policy. The two-hour interview in the antiques-filled James Madison Room atop the State Department Building ended when Vance had to rush off for a final pre-Moscow meeting with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: People Want to See Coonskins | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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