Word: strobing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Strobe Talbott...
...term presidency in a generation. In TIME'S Washington bureau, however, Jan. 1 will mark a change of leadership: Robert Ajemian, bureau chief for the past seven years, is moving back to his home town, Boston, to direct TIME'S New England coverage. His replacement will be Strobe Talbott, most recently the magazine's diplomatic correspondent...
...Christopher Ogden from Chicago reported and assessed the debate, question by question. Douglas Brew and Sam Allis, both from Washington, judged the individual performances of Reagan and Mondale. Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian, in consultation with his TIME colleagues, contributed an overview of the event. In Washington, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott reviewed how each candidate handled the details of foreign policy under the pressures of the face-to-face meeting. In addition, TIME had a panel of foreign policy and political science experts standing by to offer their own reactions immediately after the debate...
...arms control, Mondale repeatedly questioned Reagan's competence to deal with the subject. He cited the book Deadly Gambits by TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott to indicate gaps in the President's knowledge. Reagan's "failure to master . . . the essential elements of arms control," said Mondale, had "cost us dearly." As an example, Mondale accused Reagan several times of saying that nuclear missiles launched by submarines can be recalled, which in fact they cannot. The President replied that the accusation was "ridiculous"; he had said the submarines themselves could be recalled...
Whether he knew it or not, Reagan seemed to be siding with them in the intramural struggle going on within his own Administration. -By Strobe Talbott...