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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- Since World War II, TIME has been a global magazine in
- every sense of the word. Our foreign business, which has nine
- editions with a total circulation of 1.4 million, is now growing
- faster than ever. International revenues have increased by 30%
- in the past two years, and represent 25% of the magazine's
- total. The economies in Asia are booming, Western Europe is
- aiming for greater integration in 1992, and Eastern Europe
- promises new opportunities. All this makes the need for
- immediate information more important, and that enhances TIME's
- role as the leading international newsmagazine. This in turn has
- required the shifting of certain responsibilities in the
- publisher's office, and with that in mind, I am delighted to
- have Louis A. Weil III as TIME's U.S. publisher. (I remain
- worldwide publisher.)
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- Chip Weil, 48, a native of Grand Rapids, has been a loyal
- TIME reader since he was a student of American literature at
- Indiana University. As a naval officer based for three years in
- Asmara, Ethiopia, he usually went through each issue more than
- once. Before arriving here he had a successful 18-year career
- with the Gannett newspapers; he was a senior vice president of
- Gannett and publisher of a ten-newspaper group with headquarters
- in White Plains, N.Y., and, most recently, publisher and CEO of
- the Detroit News. "TIME," he says, "has always been an icon for
- me -- the source. It was a thrill to be asked to join the
- flagship." Although all publishing is competitive, he adds, "the
- biggest challenges here are ideas. Our task is to go into the
- next century as relevant and essential to our readers as we are
- now."
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- Beginning next week, Chip's signature will appear at the
- bottom of this column.
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- In addition to our coverage of the Malta summit and other
- world events, you will find two unique pieces of journalism in
- this week's issue. One is an interview with East German leader
- Egon Krenz, the first he has given to an American magazine. The
- discussion deals with the fall of the Wall, German
- reunification, the future of socialism and Krenz's decision to
- avoid bloodshed in Leipzig. The other story is an amazing
- reconstruction of what went on behind the scenes in Prague in
- the months before the fall of the Communist regime. These are
- only two examples of the additional dimension we try to bring
- to the news every week.
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