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London: Christopher Ogden, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower European Economic Correspondent: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Central America: John Moody Mexico City: John Borrell Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez
...ground in New York City, Soviet good intentions faltered as reporters were dumped unceremoniously on the pavement outside the United Nations, one hour late for the first Soviet press briefing. When Gorbachev abruptly headed home to survey his country's earthquake damage, TIME Moscow bureau chief John Kohan hitched a ride to Armenia aboard an American mercy flight and happily avoided another trip on Glasnost...
...trials of covering the other superpower are nothing new to Kohan, a longtime student of the Gorbachev phenomenon. A fluent speaker of Russian who studied for four months at Leningrad University in 1974, Kohan began tracking the Kremlin's rising star after joining TIME as a reporter-researcher in 1975. As an associate editor in the World section, he wrote the March 1985 cover story on Gorbachev's appointment to the top job of General Secretary. A week later Kohan left New York City to report from TIME's Bonn bureau, where Gorbachev's new policies held a constant fascination...
Since taking over the Moscow bureau last June, Kohan has found that Gorby watching is a seven-day-a-week, round-the-clock job. The General Secretary's four-car Moscow motorcade often whisks past Kohan's Kutuzovsky Prospect apartment en route to the Kremlin. But keeping an eye on Gorbachev is as exciting as it is demanding. Says Kohan: "There have been times during the past hectic months of political activity when I have wondered if Gorbachev has not reached a dead end. Then, suddenly, he will pull off a surprise, and everything will move forward again...
London: Christopher Ogden, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot ; Hornblower European Economic Correspondent: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro, Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Central America: John Moody Mexico City: John Borrell Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...