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AUTHORS: MICHAEL R. BESCHLOSS AND STROBE TALBOTT...
EDITOR AT LARGE: Strobe Talbott...
LAST THURSDAY, THE FIRST FULL DAY OF BILL CLINTON'S presidency, Strobe Talbott found himself at a strange juncture: in the lobby of the State Department, speaking from the pay phone he had used for years to file stories to TIME. But now he was on his own turf. Two days earlier, Clinton had nominated him to be ambassador at large and special adviser to the Secretary of State on the new independent states, a position in which he will help formulate and carry out the Administration's policy toward the former Soviet Union...
...attention has not changed. He is one of the country's foremost experts on Russia and the other states of the former U.S.S.R. He learned Russian at Hotchkiss, majored in Russian literature at Yale, and wrote a master's thesis on that subject at Oxford. Clinton first witnessed Talbott's expertise 24 years ago when he and Strobe, both Rhodes scholars, shared a sparsely furnished row house at Oxford University. Clinton often recalled watching Strobe translate Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs, and sustaining him with plates of scrambled eggs and biscuits and cups of coffee...
EDITOR AT LARGE: Strobe Talbott...