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...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...
White House Correspondents Fischer and Talbott have been just as busy following Ford from coast to coast. The logistics of the schedule, Fischer finds, can present peculiar problems, like having to surrender his luggage the night before an early-morning flight. Says he: "Sometimes I end up having to carry a toothbrush, razor and shaving cream in my raincoat pocket." Holder of a master's degree in history from the University of Chicago, Fischer has covered three presidential campaigns and feels that this one is "far and away the most interesting because of the uncertainty." Despite the pace...
...neck race nearing a finish, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter talked at length with TIME about their campaigns, in effect making a final plea to the voters. Aboard Air Force One, between campaign stops, the President chatted with Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart and Correspondents Dean Fischer and Strobe Talbott. While riding in a car from Plains to Albany, Ga., Carter spoke with Gart and Correspondent Stanley Cloud...