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...through-Friday job, and TIME often goes to extraordinary lengths to cover late-breaking events. By any standard, however, last weekend's Reagan-Gorbachev meeting in Reykjavik posed a challenge. It was a big story, of course, big enough for TIME to send eight reporters and five photographers to Iceland. The meeting, moreover, was set to conclude early Sunday afternoon, well past the hour that TIME's presses normally start to roll...
...back, and they were. But to ensure that the magazine reached its readers with the smallest possible delay, all aspects of the process, which normally takes most of the week, had to be compressed into less than a day. To handle the abundance of late reporting transmitted from Iceland, where clocks are four hours later, writers and editors assigned to the story in New York City began their work before dawn on Sunday...
...delighted by the opportunity that the Reykjavik story gave IMPACT to show its mettle. After all, she says, "the whole purpose of IMPACT is to reduce the time it takes to get news from the writer's desk to the readers." A Sunday-morning presidential meeting in Iceland was a special test, but that goal is one that TIME pursues each week of the year...
...dramatic proposal was to slash in half the long-range nuclear missiles in the arsenals of the superpowers and eventually eliminate them altogether. Until a half-hour before the meeting broke up on Sunday evening, virtually all the pieces seemed to be in place. Yet in the end, the Iceland summit broke down over a single word: laboratory...
...several critical areas we made more progress than we anticipated when we came to Iceland," said Reagan before he prepared to board Air Force One for the flight home Sunday night. "We moved toward agreement on drastically reduced numbers of intermediate range missiles in both Europe and Asia. We approached agreement on sharply reduced strategic arsenals for both our countries." But, he added, "there was remaining at the end of our talks one area of disagreement." He said "the Soviet Union insisted that we sign an agreement that would deny to me and future Presidents for ten years the right...