Word: talbott
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...outlining his foreign policy goals at the U.N., the first official U.S. mission to Hanoi was making good on his campaign promises to improve relations with the Communist government and seek information about the 771 U.S. servicemen still missing in Indochina. With the delegation was TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott. The following is from his reports...
...Cyrus Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski, the White House National Security Adviser, suggested that Carter not use the term defensible borders. They proposed a more politically neutral substitute: "secure frontiers." Carter rather gingerly used both concepts and described the difference between them as "just semantics." Says TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, assessing Carter's foreign policy style: "Unprecedentedly public, yes. Occasionally feckless, yes. Controversial and provocative, to be sure. But off-the-cuff or casual, never...
...reported that Moscow's U.S.A. Institute was working overtime in an attempt to fathom this puzzling new U.S. leader, but that relations between the two powers have generally improved since Carter's election. The flap over the Soviet dissidents, however, was seen by TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott in Washington as portending a possible new chill in U.S. and U.S.S.R. relations...
Meanwhile, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who succeeded Schecter, was already bulldogging Vice President Fritz Mondale on an Air Force Two tour of allied capitals. Talbott has served in Moscow and Eastern Europe, and also covered Henry Kissinger's visit to Peking in 1975. Mondale's on-the-record briefing took place in the same mid-fuselage lounge in which Kissinger used to dispense background information attributable only to "a senior U.S. official." Comparing the experienced diplomat's style with that of the new Vice President, Correspondent Talbott headed his file: "An Old Plane Under New Management...
...tour that would whisk him to half a dozen European capitals and back across the Arctic icecap to Tokyo. His mission: to promise that the new Administration would work to strengthen economic and military ties with its chief allies. On board Air Force Two was TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott. His report...