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...breakneck news are part of a journalist's regular routine, each big story brings a unique quickening, a foretaste of the hard work and challenges ahead. As the biggest Washington story in years broke last week, much of TIME's Washington bureau staff gathered in Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott's office to watch Ronald Reagan announce that funds from Iranian arms sales had been diverted to the contra rebels in Nicaragua. Even as the President spoke, Talbott was on the line to Nation Editor Walter Isaacson, who was watching the disclosures with writers and editors in New York City. Among...
...body language and be sensitive to signals." TIME's correspondents also spent time on the phone conducting two exclusive interviews, one with President Reagan at the White House by Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey and the other with Vice President George Bush at his Kennebunkport, Me., vacation home by Talbott and Seaman...
Vice President George Bush has kept quiet since Election Day, four weeks ago, avoiding any public comment on the arms-hostages-contra flap. Last Friday he broke his silence in a 45-minute telephone interview from his vacation home in Kennebunkport, Me., with Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott and White House Correspondent Barrett Seaman...
...Talbott's team at the University of Pittsburgh found that of 51 Allegheny County, Pa., female heart-attack victims over 50, twelve had never given birth. In contrast, only two of 47 healthy women over 50 and from the same neighborhood were not biological mothers. In women 50 or younger, childlessness appeared to be unrelated to the risk of sudden death...
Were the heart-attack deaths of the childless older women triggered in part by psychological pressures, such as loneliness and regret over not having had children? Talbott leans toward a more biological explanation. In these women, she says, abnormal levels of female hormones may have played a role. She concedes that for now the study "raises more questions than it answers...