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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
In his 44 years as a writer, foreign correspondent and
editor, Roy Rowan has built a reputation for adventurous,
penetrating and durable journalism. From his eyewitness report
of the fall of Saigon for TIME in 1975 to his expose of the
Mafia's top bosses for FORTUNE in 1986 and an extraordinary
account in PEOPLE in 1990 of two weeks spent as a homeless
wanderer on the streets of Manhattan, his stories have
established Roy as a master reporter, one of the few at the very
top of the profession who are both unstoppable investigators and
caring chroniclers of the human condition. This week's cover
story on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 -- the fruit of a five-
month investigation by Roy -- is the most far-reaching account to
date of the mystery behind the 1988 tragedy over Lockerbie,
Scotland. The trail of the story led him through Scandinavia,
Germany, England, California and Washington, where he conducted
more than 200 interviews and examined thousands of documents,
including confidential memos from former U.S. and foreign
intelligence agents. "This story just kept building and
building," says Rowan. "Some of the real breakthroughs came in
the past couple of weeks."
Rowan has more than a little experience with strange and
difficult stories. He joined LIFE as a correspondent in China
in 1948 and spent, in separate assignments, 15 years in Asia as
bureau chief for LIFE and TIME in Shanghai, Hong Kong and
Saigon. He covered the fall of Shanghai, the Korean War, the
Mayaguez crisis and the fall of Saigon. In between, he ran LIFE
bureaus in Rome, Bonn and Chicago and was national-affairs
editor and assistant managing editor of LIFE. Among his many
accomplishments at our sister publication was a pretty good
personnel move: he trained a green kid named Henry Muller, a
Stanford junior, as an intern. Muller passed muster, moved to
TIME, and is now our managing editor.
In 1986, after a spell editing at FORTUNE, Roy retired to
write books and report a few special stories. He is still a
close member of our professional family, admired not only for
his judgment and experience but also for his calm good humor
and empathy. "The human factor always fascinates me," says Roy.
"Stories where a corporation or government is trying to stymie
news coverage, that's a challenge, and that intrigues me, but I
like dealing with the people whose lives are affected by a great
drama. As a reporter you have to establish a rapport with
people."
Elizabeth P. Valk