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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.