Word: jerrold
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Western visitors have brought back conflicting reports about the quality of Russian medicine. Some have praised it; others have been appalled, often after traumatic personal experiences. Jerrold Schecter, chief of TIME'S Moscow Bureau, has observed the system more closely than most. At various times, his wife and five children have all been patients in Soviet hospitals or polyclinics. Schecter offers this appraisal...
DEPORTING from Moscow is-like piecing together a delicate mosaic," notes TIME Bureau Chief Jerrold Schecter. "Rumors, tips, observations and the dogged detail of the official press, form the pattern." Indeed, for Schecter, the patterns for this week's cover story on Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and the Russian military began to form soon after he arrived in the Soviet capital 20 months...
...unsuccessfully, to keep the military men on relatively short rations, Brezhnev may feel obliged to keep them well fed in exchange for their recent backing. That would further distort the economy, already heavily oriented toward military needs, and the very quality of Russian life as well. As TIME Correspondent Jerrold Schecter cabled from Moscow: "Guns have been built at the expense not only of butter but also of soap, toilet paper, furniture, dishes, flatware and household appliances. There remain glaring imbalances?sleekly engineered missiles and submersible tanks, on one hand, and rickety apartment-house elevators and bathroom plumbing that...