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...diplomats meet to consecrate détente, dissident Soviet Physicist Andrei Sakharov offers some cogent reservations about the process in a recently completed essay, My Country and the World. Excerpts from it accompany our cover story. They were selected by TIME'S State Department correspondent Strobe Talbott, whose previous credits include translating two volumes of Khrushchev Remembers (Little, Brown & Co.), including his The Last Testament...
...class" and suggests that every critic of Senator Henry Jackson's anti-détente stand is politically motivated. But Sakharov's is nonetheless a compelling voice, more measured than Solzhenitsyn's. Excerpts from the essay, as edited by TIME'S State Department Correspondent Strobe Talbott...
...Ford, his El Al jetliner landed at New York's Kennedy Airport. Rabin then boarded a U.S. military jet for the hop between Kennedy and Andrews Air Force Base outside the capital. "Please don't call it the shuttle," an Israeli diplomat jokingly implored TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott as Rabin disembarked at Andrews. Despite the effort at humor, the Israelis were in no mood to link Rabin's trip to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's long-playing diplomatic shuttle between Cairo and Jerusalem, which ended in a stalemate three months...
...Chief Donald Neff pressed Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin for his interpretation of the stalled Middle East negotiations, while Correspondents Wilton Wynn in Cairo and Karsten Prager in Beirut reported Arab views and reaction to Faisal's death. From Washington, Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter and State Department Correspondent Strobe Talbott contributed to an analysis of how setbacks in Indochina and the Middle East may affect the future of the Secretary of State. The special section is illustrated by four pages of color photographs, including a remarkable picture of Faisal's simple sand-and-stone grave by TIME...
Colby told Talbott that in principle he welcomed the investigations. He said: "There has been much exaggeration and misunderstanding. I both hope and sincerely believe that after reviewing the whole matter, it will come out that these were minor problems rather than major issues." The director predicted that the hearings will result in closer congressional scrutiny of the CIA, though he added: "This confronts us with a problem. How do you resolve the need for secrecy with the desire of a substantial number of Congressmen to have significant knowledge...