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SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, Barrett Seaman, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White...
Normal people, beginning their careers, often plan toward what they hope to be doing in 20 years. But journalists aren't that normal -- and besides, how could Barrett Seaman have known in October 1971 that he would spend his 20th anniversary with our company in rural Wise County, Va., watching Oliver North, the ramrod Marine who mesmerized America during the 1987 Iran-contra hearings, campaign for Republican candidates? But for Barry, who excerpted North's autobiography, Under Fire, for this week's issue, getting a close-up look at the author in action was critical to understanding his enduring appeal...
...Seaman brings unusual qualifications to his latest assignment. As senior White House correspondent during most of Ronald Reagan's second term, he covered the Iran-contra affair, speaking often with North's colleagues in the West Wing and on the National Security Council. He never succeeded in cornering the elusive lieutenant colonel himself, although he did once glimpse the infamous paper shredder. Firsthand knowledge of the players did not prevent Seaman from being surprised by some of the revelations in Under Fire, however. One disclosure was the extent to which the late CIA director William Casey "ran" North, schooling...
...Donald Regan; last year he excerpted Reagan's autobiography. "Barry did such a masterly job on those that there was no question who should handle North's book," says executive editor Ronald Kriss, who oversaw this project, having cut down a number of works himself. Indeed, so apparent is Seaman's editing talent that in June he was made a senior editor, a much more logical event to have put on his agenda 20 years...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, Barrett Seaman, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White...