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...other main cover story, on the growing awareness and concern among Americans about the threat of nuclear holocaust. He was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Eileen Chiu, while Brigid O'Hara-Forster and JoAnn Lum worked with Talbott. Presiding over the entire package was National Editor John T. Elson, who was struck by the antinuclear movement's broad base. "The early opposition to the Viet Nam War," he says, "was by political radicals, and only later became a popular movement. Today's antinuclear leaders include Roman Catholic archbishops and Harvard law professors." Adds Elson: "TIME's correspondents...
...strongly against him. "If I'd bet on the outcome, I would have lost," he says. "You should never underestimate the persuasive power of the President, or of the number of people who will go along with him just because he is the President." Concurs National Editor John Elson: "The AWACS question was badly mishandled by Reagan and his staff. It is basically a blunder that they retrieved. But it is obviously extremely risky ever to bet against this President...
...special issue on the Soviet Union (June 23, 1980), TIME won the Overseas Press Club Award for the best magazine interpretation of foreign affairs. Says National Editor John Elson, who was in charge of the project: "The object was to devote an entire issue to one subject that people actually knew very little about and at the same time to retain the newsmagazine approach." Before writing the main story, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott made his sixth visit to the U.S.S.R., becoming the first Western journalist to tour the Central Asian republics after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The bulk...
...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...