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Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott is a specialist in U.S.-Soviet relations and arms control. His analysis of the interview with General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev...
...been foreign policy. He has written four books on the subject (No More Vietnams was published this month) and maintains a network of high- level contacts. The appointment of a new Soviet leader was much on his mind last week when he met with TIME Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott and Senior Editor Stephen Smith. Looking tanned and fit after a vacation in the Bahamas, the former President said he had recovered from a prolonged bout of shingles. In his first on-the-record interview since November 1984, Nixon discussed the pitfalls of summitry and assessed the challenges facing...
...excerpts were chosen by TIME's Washington bureau chief, Strobe Talbott, who translated and edited the memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev. The latest project required a special approach, Talbott says, "precisely because it does come from the world of espionage, where deception and illusion are commonplace. Those of us working on the project thought it important to verify the bona fides of the author and, as far as it was possible, his story." As State Department correspondent and diplomatic correspondent during the 1970s, Talbott had covered stories about defectors, agents and double agents--and the tricky business of telling them apart...
After he had boiled the 378-page book down to the two excerpts, Talbott met with Shevchenko to interview him for the introductions and review certain editorial problems. Reporter-Researcher Anne Hopkins, who independently checked verifiable material in the excerpts, also spoke with the author. "Even when he was on vacation in the Caribbean," she says, "he would keep in touch by phone...
...Strobe Talbott...