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Only last month North Korea brusquely rejected the latest call for bilateral talks with its U.S.-supported neighbor, South Korea. That gesture was characteristic of one of the most self-enclosed and xenophobic Communist countries in the world. North Korea has, however, opened its doors to a rarely admitted visitor, a reporter from a U.S. news organization. TIME's Peking Bureau Chief, David Aikman, sent this report...
Close encounter with a surprise visitor from deep space
...debris, largely ice and dust, left over from the formation of the sun and its family of planets nearly 5 billion years ago. Skywatchers around the world got a rare chance last week to view such a dirty celestial snowball close up, at least by astronomical standards. The surprise visitor from deep space swept to within 2.9 million miles of earth, the nearest approach by a comet in two centuries...
Anderson wore the first of these hats more than the others--he sometimes greeted up to five foreign visitors a day. Some dignitaries came on their own, most were directed by the State Department, which works with the marshal's office to see that guests visiting Boston get a chance to see Harvard. From the moment of the guest's arrival until his departure, Anderson was responsible for his satisfaction with his Harvard junket. The former marshal established the initial harmonious relationship between Harvard and its guest, and would then arrange for the visitor to see his American counterparts, whether...
Reviewing the highlights of his marshal career, Anderson often smiles with nostalgia, but he seriously emphasizes the fundamental importance of the job: "When one thinks of this program, it is with the hope that when the visitor returns to his own country, it is with a better understanding of ours." He notes that many of the visiting leaders and businessman are politically unpopular, and students sometimes protest their arrival. Anderson strongly advocates the visitor's rights: "The University is a place where freedom of expression should be one of our greatest priorities. We should allow anyone to visit Harvard whenever...