Word: icelander
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COVER: In Iceland, a breakthrough on arms control stumbles over Star Wars...
...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...
...next week's annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in South Korea, Japan is expected to push for an end to the moratorium on commercial whaling. Though the country has always been against the ban, conservationists fear that Japan and other pro-whaling nations like Norway and Iceland have lined up unprecedented support in the IWC this year, and might even extend hunting to protected species like the humpback. "If Japan increases its hunting, it could devastate these whale populations," says Nicola Beynon, a spokeswoman for the Humane Society International (HSI) in Australia. But Japan's whaling industry...