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...Fall Guy. Nighttime TV resembles nothing so much as the locker room of the local Y, and the ability to read a line is less important than knowing how to use a Nautilus machine. "Young girls don't watch my show to see my wonderful acting," says Jon-Erik Hexum, star of NBC's Voyagers!, with what might be called naked honesty. "The hunk thing is the catalyst that gets them to watch...
...Anastasia Toufexis. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow and Jerry Hannifin/Washington
...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...
...John Kohan. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow and Christopher Redman/Washington, with other bureaus...
...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...