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...Cuba as well-are growing increasingly skeptical about the wisdom of that commitment. The muted echoes of the debate that is now under way on the issue were picked up from Western intelligence and Soviet sources last week by TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter and Correspondent Strobe Talbott. Their report...
...during his four-day stay in China, the Secretary of State could not get his hosts very far from this single, obsessive topic. Détente turned out to be not just a major point of contention, as Kissinger had anticipated, but a recurring one. As TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott reported from Peking, it limited negotiations over such vital items as the future of Korea, the status of Taiwan and preparations for President Ford's first visit to China, scheduled for December. The Chinese feel that last summer's Helsinki summit on European cooperation was the Munich...
Henry Kissinger is on the move again. Last week, after making his first visit to Canada, he flew to Tokyo and then on to Peking. Before going to Ottawa, the Secretary of State sat down for two hours with TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter and State Department Correspondent Strobe Talbott for a wide-ranging discussion of his foreign policy. Excerpts from the conversation...
...TIME correspondents in Washington, Jerusalem and Cairo saw unofficial signs that the talks had reached a critical stage well before any word that Henry Kissinger might be resuming his shuttle diplomacy. "When the two sides - and their American intermediaries - are at odds," explains State Department Correspondent Strobe Talbott, "then official sources are more likely to let information out to tell their side of the story." Last week, Talbott noted, "was a classic case of negotiations becoming leakproof as all sides moved closer to agreement." In Jerusalem, Bureau Chief Donald Neff assessed the impending settlement's durability in talks with...
...Rumanian government of President Nicolae Ceauçescu, reports TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott, has secretly been looking into the possibility of buying modern armaments, including American F-5 jet fighters, in the West. Such a move, if it materialized, would be unprecedented for a member of the Warsaw Pact. The subject was raised by Rumanian Chief of Staff and Deputy Defense Minister General Ion Coman when he flew to Washington in March for talks with his U.S. counterpart, General Frederick Weyand. But while the U.S. would welcome a "protocol" or limited military relationship, it is reluctant to provide Rumania with...