Word: elson
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...fanned out across the country to test the mood of citizens about the proposed budget cuts. The goal: to look at some of the programs most affected, examine what they had been achieving at the local level and assess how much they might be missed. Says National Editor John Elson, who edited the story: "We found a wide range of responses, including some that were not anticipated by the Administration. It is already clear that Reagan is going after a whole herd of sacred cows. The battle brewing in the Congress will be fascinating...
National Editor John Elson, who edited last year's special issue on the Soviet Union, was in charge of TIME'S American Renewal effort. Says he: "TIME has always tried to interpret the news as well as report it. This week we are going one step further-we are offering some possible solutions to the difficulties the nation faces." For his story on U.S. political institutions, Senior Writer Otto Friedrich returned to many of the themes explored in TIME'S 1976 Bicentennial issue, which he edited. "Defining the changing role and the ultimate power of the Congress...
...Whether the place is Afghanistan, El Salvador, Zimbabwe or the Great Wall of China." Says World Senior Editor John Elson, "there are staff people here in New York with special background, training and knowledge on just about any subject that can come up, who can be called on to give a story extra depth and insight...
...nation much talked about but little understood. Following the invasion of Afghanistan, the Olympic boycott and the ensuing collapse of U.S.-Soviet relations, a new cold war became a reality, and the need for American knowledge about Soviet society was more pressing than ever. Says World Editor John Elson, who was in charge of the project: "I hope readers get from this a sense of the extraordinary complexity of the Soviet Union. It's not a gray, faceless monolith but an enormously vital country, with eleven time zones, diverse races and nationalities, and more than 100 languages...
...impact of the Ayatullah on world events is far greater than merely the hostage crisis," says World Editor John Elson, who edited the opening story, written by Senior Writer George Church, and the additional stories by Church and Associate Editor William Smith. Sums up Elson: "Khomeini has ignited a messianic fervor to destroy Western influence that may spread throughout the Arab world, and a xenophobic nationalism that could be exported even to non-Islamic Third World nations...