Word: newsweek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is much, much bigger. It's bigger than all of us," he said, his words tumbling over each other. "We tried private war already--but like Newsweek said, too many losers and misfits were getting into it. The Freedom Fight is no place for every Joe Blow who subscribes to Soldier of Fortune. What we really need is real men and big money. You might not agree with him, but the Ayatollah is a real man. Now that source is dried up, we need a new supplier...
...Crack! It's the latest thing. Hey, don't you read Newsweek...
...Wise Men encompasses this center of influence with vigor and style. Walter Isaacson, the Nation editor of TIME, and Evan Thomas, Washington bureau chief for Newsweek, rely heavily on anecdotes and quotations to convey the nuances of personality and politics. Harriman, son of an American robber baron, was hampered by mumbled diction and a seeming inattention to details. Lovett, who would serve as Secretary of Defense, was a childhood friend of % Harriman's. Acheson, Secretary of State from 1949 to 1953, was more responsible for the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine than the general and President whose names...
...NEWSWEEK HASN'T done a cover story on drugs for a while now, so the drug hysteria of this past summer must be fading. You would think that politicians, who are supposed to be hip to the mood of the people, would know this. As election day approaches, however, many candidates for public office around the country have focused on drugs as they grope for something--anything--on which they can take a strong stand and win the affections of the electorate...
...page news in dailies ranging from city tabloids to the Wall Street Journal, which last week reported abuse was "rife" in rural Oklahoma. Crack has repeatedly reached Page One of the New York Times and Washington Post, and the drug crisis rated two cover stories within three months at Newsweek. The magazine's editor in chief, Richard Smith, wrote in the June 16 issue: "An epidemic is abroad in America, as pervasive and dangerous in its way as the plagues of medieval times." TIME has given cover attention to drug use in the workplace and the antidrug crusade...