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Early this year, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott was in the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan, near the Iranian border, assessing Soviet policy in the tumultuous Middle East. A few months later, he was on the other side of Iran, flying over the Persian Gulf in an Omani air force helicopter, watching Iranian warships steaming out of the port city of Bandar Abbas. When border tensions between Iraq and Iran erupted into a full-scale war four weeks ago, Talbott was back at his desk in Washington. But he found that his recent opportunity to "look at Iran from both sides," literally...
This journalistic version of shuttle diplomacy is not unusual for Talbott, who describes his job as "looking over the tops of this week's headlines in an effort to anticipate the headlines of the future." Accordingly, he was in Iran only months before the revolution that toppled the Shah and brought the Ayatullah Khomeini to power. He visited Afghanistan in 1978, long before Soviet tanks rolled across the border...
...Talbott's travels for TIME have led him to produce a book, Endgame: The Inside Story of SALT II, published last year by Harper & Row. In the just released paperback edition, Talbott has added what he calls "a new and more pessimistic" epilogue that takes into account the Afghanistan invasion and the congressional suspension of the SALT II treaty. Says he: "The collapse of the SALT process is part of a larger deterioration of the international order...
...matter how the Iran-Iraq war is resolved, the U.S. is a likely loser. From Washington, TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott analyzes the American quandary...
...Strobe Talbott, Reported by Gregory H. Wierzynksi and Robert Suro/Washington