Monthly Archives: November 2018

At the beginning of June 1969,I became the Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times. I had also married Marie-Jeanne Marcouyeux on April 19, in Washington and after a brief honeymoon in London and Paris, we were beginning our married life in Moscow, No sooner had I assumed command of the bureau when Henry Kamm departed for his next assignment in Asia. My “big story” was obviously going to center on the Soviet reaction to the planned launch of…..

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