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- Sep. 11, 1989: From The Publisher
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 11, 1989 The Lonely War:Drugs
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- <p> The man across the table was an obscure military officer
- who seemed to have an extraordinary grasp of the murky world of
- terrorism and espionage. For two hours late one night,
- Washington bureau chief Strobe Talbott listened as the man
- unleashed a barrage of mind-blowing tales. "Then he asked if I
- wouldn't mind dropping him off -- at the airport," Talbott
- recalls. "He didn't say where he was going." The man was Oliver
- North.
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- <p> That scene is only one of many memorable moments that have
- marked Talbott's five years in charge of our Washington
- coverage. Unlike the elusive North's travels, however, there is
- nothing mysterious about Talbott's next destination. Beginning
- this week, he will assume the post of editor at large. An expert
- in U.S.-Soviet affairs, Talbott will continue to write his
- fortnightly foreign policy column, "America Abroad," and
- trenchantly track the superpowers. Talbott's replacement as
- bureau chief is well acquainted with Washington. Stanley Cloud
- has spent the better part of his 25-year journalistic career
- there. As a TIME correspondent, he reported on Watergate and the
- Carter White House. Cloud moved to the Washington Star in 1978,
- where he became managing editor, and left in 1982 to become
- executive editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Two years
- ago, he returned to our Washington bureau as deputy bureau
- chief. Moving into that post now is Laurence Barrett, who has
- during the past two decades reported on the White House, Capitol
- Hill and several campaigns.
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- <p> Talbott, Cloud and Barrett are all represented in this
- week's issue. In "America Abroad," Talbott takes issue with
- intellectuals who are too quick to claim victory in the
- ideological war against Communism. For his profile of former
- President Jimmy Carter, Cloud revisited Carter in Plains, Ga.,
- and accompanied him on a tour of Africa. In Press, Barrett
- analyzes the Bush Administration's efforts to quash news leaks.
- Says Barrett, who has ruffled feathers on both sides of an
- issue: "You've got to be willing to serve as a multipurpose
- target if you're going to have any fun -- and if you're going
- to do your job properly." If the past is any guide, all three
- will succeed on both counts.
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