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...presidency in a generation. In TIME'S Washington bureau, however, Jan. 1 will mark a change of leadership: Robert Ajemian, bureau chief for the past seven years, is moving back to his home town, Boston, to direct TIME'S New England coverage. His replacement will be Strobe Talbott, most recently the magazine's diplomatic correspondent...
...Talbott interned in TIME'S London and Moscow bureaus while at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, then worked for Time Inc. in 1970 as editor-translator of Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs. He then served as TIME'S Eastern Europe correspondent, and in 1974 was about to become Moscow bureau chief. But he was denied a visa to the Soviet capital "because of his involvement with a second Khrushchev volume, and he took up residence in the U.S. capital instead. "The Soviets had inadvertently done me a great favor," he now reflects. "I had a series of extremely...
...When Talbott became diplomatic correspondent in 1977, he kept a close watch on Soviet affairs, and especially on U.S.-Soviet efforts to control nuclear arms. His TIME reporting, including six cover stories on that subject, is reflected in three books: Endgame: The Inside Story of SALT II (Harper & Row, 1979); Deadly Gambits: The Reagan Administration and the Stalemate in Nuclear Arms Control (Knopf, 1984); and The Russians and Reagan (Vintage Books...
...arms control, Mondale repeatedly questioned Reagan's competence to deal with the subject. He cited the book Deadly Gambits by TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott to indicate gaps in the President's knowledge. Reagan's "failure to master . . . the essential elements of arms control," said Mondale, had "cost us dearly." As an example, Mondale accused Reagan several times of saying that nuclear missiles launched by submarines can be recalled, which in fact they cannot. The President replied that the accusation was "ridiculous"; he had said the submarines themselves could be recalled...
Whether he knew it or not, Reagan seemed to be siding with them in the intramural struggle going on within his own Administration. -By Strobe Talbott...