Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chronicle of the Amber Cloud," a strange affliction attacks priviliged white adolescents and is quickly diagnosed as "Ghetto Disease." Their skin color darkened, "youngsters who had been alert, personable, and confident became lethargic, suspicious, withdrawn and hopelessly insecure...
Last year Cloud had resigned as executive editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and returned to Washington to write a novel. But Cloud, a TIME correspondent from 1968 to 1978, responded positively when his alma mater asked him for an encore. "He writes, edits and reports, as well as manages people splendidly," says Talbott. "On a scale of one to ten, Stan's a twelve." Says Cloud: "This job meets my main criterion for journalistic employment...
...Cloud's assignments have been tempestuous. In 1970 he was kicked out of the U.S.S.R. after the magazine published an unflattering portrait of Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev. Cloud then made his way to the war in Southeast Asia. In Kampuchea, he was helicoptered into a town only to discover that a North Vietnamese siege he thought had been lifted was still going on. Under heavy fire, Cloud was trapped for two and a half days. Says Cloud: "I must admit that there's a certain thrill in being in dangerous situations -- and surviving...
Reputation aside, Cloud had made another kind of name for himself when he first came to Washington in 1973. Correspondent David Beckwith, who had nicknames for everyone in the bureau, dubbed him "Stormy." Whenever Cloud's demands for precision and thoroughness were not met, says Administrative Assistant Katharine McNevin, "you could hear him six miles before you saw him." Since his return to TIME, however, there has been a lull in the storm. Though less explosive, he still has no patience for journalistic cant. So every cloud does have its silver lining...
Washington: Strobe Talbott, Stanley W. Cloud, David Aikman, David Beckwith, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Anne Constable, Michael Duffy, Glenn Garelik, Hays Gorey, Ted Gup, David Halevy, Jerry Hannifin, Steven Holmes, Richard Hornik, Neil MacNeil, Barrett Seaman, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Bruce van Voorst New York: Bonnie Angelo, Mary Cronin, Margot Hornblower, Jennifer Hull, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, Harry Kelly, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami...