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Robert F. Ober Jr
Robert F. Ober Jr. concentrated on Communist affairs in a 26-year diplomatic career that included three assignments in Moscow. He also served in Athens, Delhi, Hamburg, Warsaw and ...view moreRobert F. Ober Jr. concentrated on Communist affairs in a 26-year diplomatic career that included three assignments in Moscow. He also served in Athens, Delhi, Hamburg, Warsaw and Washington; negotiated with Russians in Kabul and Prague; and was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Ober describes the policies he advanced; the ambassadors and officials with whom he served; and the friends he and his wife Liz made behind the Iron Curtain. He discusses Nixon and Kissinger’s “détente”; their neglect of U.S. families divided by Soviet restrictions; Brezhnev’s era of stagnation; and Gorbachev’s reforms.view less