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...discos are strobe light-years removed from the borax boîtes of the '60s-most of which died a well-deserved death. In place of the tacky, bare-wall closets wired for din, push and crush, the best new places project sensuality, exclusivity and luxury. And they are booming: there are some 15,000 discos in the U.S. today, v. 3,000 only two years ago. Many of the night places are for members only, with fees and dues ranging as high as $1,000 a year. Many have good-and expensive-restaurants and such added recreational lures...
This week we also take an unprecedented look at a normally hidden world-the Central Intelligence Agency, which until recently kept its doors tightly shut to journalists and news photographers. It tried to be almost as invisible in Washington as overseas. Says Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who reported part of our story and who has also worked in Eastern Europe and Moscow: "Even inside the embassies, it was taboo to mention...
...agency, hurt by revelations of its abuses of power both abroad and at home, is on a much needed public relations campaign. Of greater significance, the CIA is sailing on more open waters under its new director, Admiral Stansfield Turner, 53. As he told TIME Correspondents Strobe Talbott and Bruce Nelan in an interview, "We operate well when the public is well informed. The information we have which need not be classified should be in the public domain. The public has paid...
This series of concessions was a key element of Vance's negotiating tactics. Reports TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott from Geneva: "There was a consensus among American policymakers that the U.S. made a mistake by putting the Kremlin on the defensive before and during Vance's mission to Moscow. Therefore the Americans decided to. let the Soviets recapture some initiative and prestige. By yielding on procedure, protocol and publicity, U.S. officials hoped for a trade-off in the form of greater Soviet flexibility and receptivity at the negotiating table...
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance settled into a rocking chair in his hideaway study on the seventh floor of the State Department and discussed the Moscow SALT talks with TIME Correspondents Strobe Talbott and Christopher Ogden. Vance angrily denied that Soviet-American relations were now at their lowest point in years, stoutly defended the Administration 's "public diplomacy" and stressed that much in fact had been accomplished at the Moscow meeting. Excerpts from the interview...