AWARD YEAR: 1981
AWARD NAME: Best Magazine Interpretation of Foreign Affairs
AWARD RECIPIENT: Walter Isaacson and Correspondents
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: TIME
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Arming the World”
“Arming the World,” a lead Time Magazine article, presents a comprehensive survey of arms sales worldwide, addressing the roles of the U.S., the Soviet Union and France, and the growing participation of other countries. In eight tightly written pages of thorough reporting, careful presentation and hard-hitting but balanced and sophisticated examination, the article draws out the scale and dangers of the business, the policy issues involved, and the need for both governments and peoples to recognize the importance of world arms trading.
Citations for Excellence were awarded to Robert Shaplen for his “Letter from Tokyo” in The New York er, and to Peter Goldman for “What Vietnam Did to Us” in Newsweek.
Judges: Morton Frank, William Arthur, Alfred Ball<, William Bundy, Stanley Swinton.