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...give TIME's readers a realistic assessment of a perilous situation, we drew on the experience of Bruce van Voorst, who has covered Germany off and on since 1965, and who took over in May as our Bonn bureau chief. Van Voorst considers himself a lucky man: "My timing has always been good. I was in Germany when Willy Brandt set Ostpolitik in motion -- leading to German unification; in South America when Allende fell; with Kissinger during his shuttle diplomacy...
This story tested his timing. "In Europe, August means either no stories or big ones with no sources," Van Voorst observes. "Americans just have nothing to compare to this total vacation exodus. Most calls aren't answered." Investigating whether the plutonium really came from Russia, as claimed by German sources but denied by Russian officials, Van Voorst was able to tap his long-standing contacts in German and American intelligence circles to help sort out the likely possibilities...
Europe: James O. Jackson London: Barry Hillenbrand Paris: Thomas A. Sancton Brussels: Jay Branegan Bonn: Bruce van Voorst Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, Sally B. Donnelly Rome: Greg Burke Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Dowell Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez...
...backing of the U.S. Other German officials said they want Europe's fledgling police agency, Europol, and German spies to fight the smugglers. Russia, despite solid German evidence to the contrary, denied that even one grain of its plutonium is missing. But TIME's Bonn bureau chief, Bruce Van Voorst, says Russia might be the last to know: "The Germans have lost confidence that the Russian accounting system is at all accurate. The Russians don't know what they've got -- even (Boris) Yeltsin doesn't know much about this." Meanwhile, Stern, a German news magazine, reported that some underpaid...
CORRESPONDENTS: Joelle Attinger (Chief), Paul A. Witteman (Deputy), Suzanne Davis (Deputy, Administration); Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Richard Hornik, J. Madeleine Nash, Richard N. Ostling, Bruce van Voorst, Jack E. White