A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 26, 1971

BACK in 1963, before going on to our Tokyo and Moscow bureaus, Jerrold Schecter enrolled in seminars on Sino-Soviet Relations and Defense Policy at Har vard, where he was spending a year as a Nieman fellow. His teacher: a brilliant 40-year-old professor of government from Germany named Henry Kissinger.

Last winter Schecter started seeing Kis singer again. By this time he was our White House correspondent and Kissinger the President's adviser. "I'm told Kissinger con ucts National Security Council meetings the same way he used to run our seminars at Harvard," says...

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