Word: talbott
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...legislative limbo since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan last December, but in the past week its fate has become one of the most heated and important disagreements between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Carter wants to save the treaty, Reagan wants to kill it. As TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott reports, the issue has grave implications...
...Talbott's travels for TIME have led him to produce a book, Endgame: The Inside Story of SALT II, published last year by Harper & Row. In the just released paperback edition, Talbott has added what he calls "a new and more pessimistic" epilogue that takes into account the Afghanistan invasion and the congressional suspension of the SALT II treaty. Says he: "The collapse of the SALT process is part of a larger deterioration of the international order...
Reporter-Researcher Tam Martinides Gray, who researched this week's story, has worked with Talbott on several diplomatic assignments during the past two years. Their most recent project was an account last month of U.S. efforts to preserve the oil flow from the Persian Gulf, a story that Gray calls a preamble to this week's cover. Gray started at TIME as a picture researcher 20 years ago, and moved from images to words in 1976. Since then she has found, as Talbott has, that looking closely at Middle East politics reveals something more fascinating than the movements...