September 1990-July 1994:
Senior Correspondent, Washington Bureau, covering foreign affairs. Also State Department correspondent. Responsible for major thematic reporting on global politics and a contributor to several cover stories on Russia, the former the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, the Middle East and Communism in general.
Summer 1993, covered Secretary of State Warren Christopher on trips to the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Spring 1993, in Moscow, covered Russian constitutional crisis and events before April referendum; in China, reported on its emerging superpower status, students returned from the United States, and the underground church.
September 1990-1993, reported from North Africa and Middle East on Islamic fundamentalism; from Saudi Arabia on build-up to Desert Storm; and from Russia and Soviet Central Asia (the only Western reporter to cover the 1990 Tajikistan revolt) on Soviet Islam. Was the only Western reporter to interview Boris Yeltsin in Moscow, then to accompany him around the United States (1989 and 1991) and travel on his election campaign plane (June 1991).
In May 1989, conducted the first interview in more than ten years by an American news organization with Alexander Solzhenitsyn; in June, was an eyewitness to the Tiananmen Square crackdown in China, and in November, witnessed the Czechoslovak "Velvet Revolution". With other Time correspondents and writers, co-authored MASSACRE IN BEIJING (1989).
1988 (January-August):
On sabbatical leave, writing, teaching, lecturing, conducting interviews for a BBC television documentary on U.S. elections.
1985-1988:
State Department Correspondent, Washington Bureau. Responsible for reporting and interpreting U.S. foreign policy and developments around the world. Traveled with U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz to the Soviet Union, Australia and East Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Acting Bureau Chief in Moscow, April-May 1986, during Chernobyl nuclear disaster;
Reported three consecutive Time Man-Of-The-Year cover stories on Deng Xiaoping (1985), Corazon Aquino (1986) and Mikhail Gorbachev (1987). Research on Gorbachev led to co-authorship of GORBACHEV: AN INTIMATE BIOGRAPHY (1988);
Covered Central America, including Nicaragua, in March 1987. Interviewed Sandinista leader Umberto Ortega in presence of (later identified) CIA aide.
1982-1985:
Bureau Chief, Beijing, China. Covered all aspects of the Deng Xiaoping reform program, with a special emphasis on the intellectual and cultural changes. Also reported the 1984 visit of President Reagan to China, Sino-Vietnamese border hostilities (1983), the rise of China's military machine (1984), and China's fast-growing Christian community.
1980-1982:
Bureau Chief, Jerusalem. Covered the years of Menachem Begin's premiership, including the raid on the Iraqi nuclear reactor, Begin's second electoral victory, Israeli withdrawal from Sinai, the war in Lebanon, the emergence of the religious and political conservatives, and Arab leadership in the West Bank and Gaza; at one point was responsible for 11 Time cover stories in 15 weeks, a record for any Time bureau; conceived and carried through Time cover story on Jerusalem, the city, in 1981.
Elected Chairman of the Foreign Press Association of Israel, 1982.
1978-1980:
Staff Writer, New York. Wrote for the World, International and Nation sections and for American Scene.
1977-1978:
Bureau Chief, Eastern Europe (based in West Berlin). Covered the emergence of Charter 77 dissident movement in Czechoslovakia, the intellectual origins of the Polish Solidarity movement (Jacek Kuron, Adam Michnik and others), and events throughout the bloc.
Also reported from Mongolia and wrote Time Essay in 1978 excoriating Khmer Rouge atrocities (before the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and confirmed archeologically the Khmer Rouge record).
1972-1976:
Correspondent, Hong Kong Bureau. Covered China, Taiwan and all of Southeast Asia. Visited China during the latter half of the Cultural Revolution (1972, 1973, 1976) and reported in detail on leadership changes during and after Chairman Mao Zedong's death.
Reported from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos during last three years of Indochina War, then India, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Was last Time Correspondent to leave Phnom Penh, Indochina, 10 days before arrival of Khmer Rouge. Witnessed the take-over of Laos by Pathet Lao forces in August 1975. Reported arrival of first Vietnamese airlift refugees in the Philippines and Guam, April 1975.
Was one of the first Western reporters to interview Khmer Communist leader Khieu Samphan (in Sri Lanka) after reports of Khmer Rouge atrocities.
1971-1972:
Correspondent in New York and Washington bureaus. Briefly covered Western and Southern White Houses of President Nixon. Reported entry of People's Republic of China into United Nations and the first tour of the United States by any group from the People's Republic of China, the table tennis delegation of 1972.
