Word: paged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...veins filled with airplane fuel. Chasing the news, they can log more miles in a month than most mortals do in a lifetime. Few correspondents are more thoroughly traveled than Mexico City Bureau Chief John Borrell, who directs TIME's coverage of Central America, including this week's six-page report on the region's uncertain advance toward peace...
...Moscow and Paris for United Press International and from Bonn and Vienna for TIME, touched down in Mexico City a year ago. Since then he has spent most of his time shuttling around Central America's capitals. Moody reported much of this week's main story, wrote the one-page description of life in war-weary El Salvador and conducted interviews with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, author of the peace plan and winner last month of the Nobel Peace Prize, and with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Said Moody: "Getting in to see the top people makes...
...sleepy small-town weekly -- until its boy editor stumbled on punchboard gambling in Madison County. With the impetuousness of youth, Simon unearthed a daisy chain of gambling and prostitution operating under the protection of local officials. A typical issue of the Tribune would combine an angry front-page editorial decrying gambling with an earnest column by the editor ("Trojan Thoughts") singing the praises of church camps...
...revelations about the Iran-Contra affair. But they shouldn't. As is the case with Bob Woodward's Veil, portions of this book that deal with the arms for hostages swap are somewhat afterthoughtish. After appearing on the jacket, the name Richard Secord does not come up again until page 273; Ollie North comes up at about the same point but figures even less prominently in Kwitny's narrative...
...page report was widely circulated among administration circles 1986, gaining the official "endorsement" of a myriad of committees, including the Undergraduate Council, the student-faculty Committee on College Life (CCL) and the Committee on House Life. But officials said yesterday that most of its suggestions were not implemented despite the fact that the report was passed on to the House masters...