Word: amfitheatrof
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Frank Melville met with Defector Vladimir Kuzichkin, a former KGB major. Washington Correspondent Christopher Redman talked with past and present members of U.S. intelligence and found them wary about revealing too much knowledge of KGB operations, lest it tip off Soviet spies to U.S. capabilities. Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof probably had the most delicate assignment. "Soviet citizens are usually leery of talking about the KGB," he reports. "But those willing to be interviewed provided insights available nowhere else. One person told me, 'If you walked down the street with a sign reading GLORY TO COMMUNISM, the KGB would...
...days. They seized research notes, books and magazines for a novel he was writing about World War II. They took away his two typewriters, one with Cyrillic script and one with Roman script. "It's very hard to work now," Vladimov told TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof last week. "They could search me again any time...
...charge of relations with other Communist parties. Four years later, Arbatov founded the Institute of the U.S.A. and Canada, an influential policy-related think tank that studies all aspects of U.S. life. In an exclusive interview in his Moscow office last week with TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof and Reporter Felix Rosenthal, Arbatov predictably blamed the U.S. for fueling the arms race. He stressed the Soviet Union's opposition to the MX missile, but he indicated that there was a Soviet willingness to find a political solution to the presence of some 100,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan...
Last spring, at the direction of Assistant Managing Editor Ronald Kriss, hundreds of pages of reporting on Brezhnev and the succession began to arrive from correspondents, notably Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof, Washington Correspondent Bruce Nelan, who had just returned from Moscow, and Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who had translated Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs...
Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/ Moscow and Gisela Bolt/ Washington