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...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...
Though the embassy compound fell to the mob quickly enough, the standoff that followed kept taking on new subplots, complications and even characters: the P.L.O., the Pope, the United Nations, Muhammad Ali. Said Senior Editor John Elson, who supervised the coverage: "It's a cover story with more imponderables and mysteries than any we've done in a long time...
...attach to what the Soviets are doing is as important as the objective facts. The mere perception of power determines the behavior of nations as often as the use of power." Pines was one of five writers assigned to the cover package by Friedrich and World Senior Editor John Elson. TIME correspondents cabled details of the developments from Moscow, Washington and Havana, where Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott had been covering the Conference of Nonaligned Countries. Talbott found no shortage of soldierly looking Soviets in the Cuban capital. "Every morning I went jogging and passed groups of young Russian...