home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
TIME: Almanac 1990
/
1990 Time Magazine Compact Almanac, The (1991)(Time).iso
/
time
/
091189
/
09118900.068
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1990-09-17
|
2KB
|
40 lines
FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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.
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.
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.