The circumstances of Nicholas Daniloff's arrest last week were all too familiar to veterans of Moscow's Western press corps, who routinely endure unsettling if less serious encounters with the KGB. TIME Moscow Bureau Chief James O. Jackson, who has spent 6 1/2 years in the Soviet capital during three tours of duty, describes the difficulties of being an American correspondent in the Soviet Union:
Lyolya was a scruffy little fellow with a ragged beard who talked in conspiratorial whispers, exhaling a fetid odor of garlic, vodka and bad Soviet tobacco. He told Westerners he had been a leader of the Komsomol,...
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