Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan is accustomed to covering diplomatic affairs, but in recent weeks he played diplomat as well as painstakingly negotiating the final details of a meeting with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Nelan was successful, and last Tuesday he and a team of TIME journalists joined Brezhnev in his Kremlin office to conduct the extraordinary discussion that is part of this week's cover story. Never before had the party chief held a private interview with members of an American news organization.
A graduate of Columbia University's Russian Institute and a former State Department correspondent for TIME, Nelan is an...
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