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General Manager: Gregory J. Zorthian...
...service officer, Greg, 38, spent parts of his boyhood in New Delhi, the Philippines and Saigon, where his father Barry was chief spokesman for the U.S. embassy for 4 1/2 years during the Vietnam War. Greg became a member of TIME's extended family at 15 when the elder Zorthian joined Time Inc., first as a broadcasting executive and then as vice president for government affairs...
...Gregory Zorthian got his first taste of time journalism as a messenger delivering copy and coffee to our editorial staff at the 1976 political conventions in Kansas City and New York. Today, as our new general manager, Greg shares responsibility for everything from overseeing the magazine's budget to taking the hassle out of office moves. He arrives from a similar position at our sister publication Fortune, where he was known for his keen sense of judgment and sure grasp of even the smallest business details. On the lighter side, Greg has earned a reputation for showing up fresh...
General Manager: Gregory J. Zorthian...
Abandonment is a word that echoes through the Rand study, and the Vietnamese argue that U.S. withdrawal left them not only short of supplies but psychologically helpless. As Barry Zorthian, former minister-counselor for information of the American embassy in Saigon, said after reading the Rand study: "It pulls together the inherent contradictions in our relationship, that love-hate. There was a Vietnamese way of doing things and an American way of doing things. And we did neither." One of the Vietnamese officials concluded more tersely: "To sum up, the war was lost from its inception...