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Messages recorded in the newsroom's "open book"--an ongoing journal and forum for editors to express opinions on all aspects of the paper--reveal The Crimson's sympathy for Vietnamese communists...
...While Gay's successors were more...moderate liberals," says Crimson Editor Timothy R. Noah '80, "the paper retained its leftist flavor." Noah is now deputy business editor and senior writer at U.S. News & World Report...
Crimson Managing Editor Susan C. Faludi '81 remembers thinking this an appropriate transition. A best-selling feminist author, Faludi characterizes the paper's international coverage as "a little self-aggrandizing" with its presumption that "anybody was going to be turning to the editorial pages of The Crimson for foreign policy...
...spite of the trend away from international news, the paper did issue two foreign affairs-related extra editions in 1981. One proclaimed the declaration of marshal law in Poland; the other, printed the night of Ronald Reagan's inauguration as President, announced the release of American hostages in Iran...
...paper's response to Reagan's victory repudiated any lessening of political passion that had occurred toward the end of the decade...