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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 5
We at TIME are usually credited with having invented group
journalism, the application of many minds to one story. We'll
accept that credit, but we're equally proud of another tradition:
when an individual writer or correspondent has something special
to impart, we make space on our pages for that writer's words
alone. This is true of weekly stories, and also of regular columns.
Since 1973 Hugh Sidey has written a column for TIME on the
presidency as seen from his own special perspective. For twelve
years Tom Griffith has dispensed his seasoned views on the press
in his Newswatch column.
This week another columnist of formidable stature debuts in
the World section under the title America Abroad. The author is
Washington bureau chief Strobe Talbott, who has unraveled the
complexities of foreign policy in a wide variety of TIME stories
since 1971. Twice a month America Abroad will offer readers a
regular opportunity to read one of Washington's most perceptive
observers of foreign affairs. Says World editor James Kelly:
"Talbott has the rare ability to explore complicated issues in a
manner that is lucid and provocative."
Talbott plans to use the column as a vehicle for both reporting
and taking his own stands. "While I think of myself as essentially
a reporter, I have strong views on most matters too," he says.
Talbott's choice of subject will often reflect his credentials as
an expert in U.S.-Soviet affairs and as the author of three books
chronicling the past twelve years of superpower arms-control
diplomacy, but he plans to vary the scope of America Abroad. He
will weigh in at times with topical examinations of news events,
step back on other occasions to take a historical perspective and
devote a column now and then to one compelling personality.
Hot off the presses: TIME's second book, The Winning of the
White House 1988. Written by five TIME staffers who covered the
campaign, edited by special projects editor Donald Morrison and
introduced by historian Garry Wills, this concise inside story is
the first book-length chronicle to reach the bookstores after the
longest and nastiest presidential campaign in memory. Read it for
the definitive account of how George Bush won.