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May 15, 1989: From The Publisher
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
May 15, 1989 Waiting For Washington
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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<p> Glasnost may mean greater openness in the U.S.S.R., but it
isn't every day that you can drop in for tea with the Soviet
Foreign Minister. But last week Moscow bureau chief John Kohan
and correspondent Ann Blackman did, joining Eduard Shevardnadze
in his seventh-floor Kremlin office for tea and his first
interview with an American magazine. At one point Shevardnadze,
graciously offering a cup to Blackman, allowed that by his own
count, he has appeared in TIME on at least 40 occasions.
</p>
<p> With this week's cover stories, make that at least 41. From
the inception of perestroika, our Moscow bureau has chronicled
the stunning make-over of the Soviet Union. For Blackman, who
arrived in 1987 after 17 years in Washington, delving into
Gorbachev's odd combination of internal imbroglios and dynamic
foreign policy has proved the opportunity of a lifetime. Says
Blackman: "For a reporter today, Moscow is the big rock-candy
mountain. There's a story on every street corner." Last month
she and Kohan scoured the country to report TIME's special issue
on the "new" Soviet Union. Shevardnadze called it a "fitting
title." The 3,000 copies of the magazine available in Moscow and
Leningrad sold out in a couple of days.
</p>
<p> The Shevardnadze interview was the culmination of a week of
unprecedented access to the Foreign Ministry. The two spent 15
hours interviewing eight top diplomats and aides who offered
insights into the workings of both the Foreign Ministry and
Shevardnadze himself. In fact, the Soviets have become gluttons
for glasnost. One session, conducted in both Russian and
English, took eight hours. Says Blackman: "It was John and I who
finally suggested we call it a day." At another interview with
a top Shevardnadze staffer, Blackman was locked in the room to
hear everything the official had to say. "We can't take any
chances," an aide explained sheepishly. No problem. We never run
away from a good story.
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