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When the Soviets walked out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks in Geneva last week, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who wrote the behind-the-scenes history of the negotiations that accompanies this week's cover story, confessed to some pessimism about the course of events. Nevertheless, he is confident that arms control is an unfinished story. Says Talbott: "The interruption of these talks closed an episode, but there will probably be more chapters to come." Talbott has closely followed the labyrinthine plot twists of arms-control negotiations for ten years. He covered the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms...
...there was an important positive consequence: the oft-fragmented Atlantic Alliance had, contrary to many predictions, responded to its most stringent test in more than 25 years by affirming rather than weakening its resolve. ?By George Russell. Reported by Roland Flamini and Gary Lee/ Bonn and Strobe Talbott/Geneva...
...chief negotiators at the end. The U.S. stance was weakened by indecision, bureaucratic infighting, the clash of personalities and, possibly, missed opportunities to make progress despite Soviet stonewalling. Much of what went on behind closed doors, in both Washington and Geneva, has never been told before. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott has been able to chronicle that story. With the secrecy-shrouded process now at an end, his account can be published...
Reported by Roland Flamini/Bonn and Strobe Talbott/ Washington, with other bureaus...
...from behind and below the jet, a position from which he could not readily have identified the distinctive shape of a Boeing 747. Perhaps, but a 747 is much bigger than an RC-135. Tapes of the pilots' conversation also indicate that the jet showed flashing navigation and strobe lights, not a common characteristic of spy planes...