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- Mar. 29, 1993: From The Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 29, 1993 Yeltsin's Last Stand
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- <p> Midway through Sam Gwynne's varied career--French teacher,
- international banker, prizewinning correspondent--he and his
- wife Katie became temporary workers: royalties from Sam's 1986
- book, Selling Money, had run out, and they needed some income
- while looking for permanent employment. Gwynne worked briefly
- as a "production assistant" on a TV commercial (his job: raking
- and reraking sand on a beach to smooth it out after strollers
- had walked by) and as a secretary at Southern California Gas
- Co. Sam vividly remembers the unnerving insecurity that helped
- inspire this week's stories on temporary workers: "No health
- insurance, no pension plan, no protection against arbitrary
- termination."
- </p>
- <p> Where Sam worked next turned out to be TIME. He joined the
- staff in 1988 as a correspondent in Los Angeles, became chief of
- the Detroit bureau and national economics correspondent based in
- Washington. With us, he found not only security but also renown:
- Gwynne and TIME correspondent Jonathan Beaty won three major
- awards last year for their exposes of how the Bank of Credit
- & Commerce International ran a one-stop shopping center for
- criminals, corrupt leaders and official intelligence agencies
- around the world. Random House will publish their jointly written
- book on B.C.C.I., The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret
- Heart of B.C.C.I., later this month.
- </p>
- <p> Early this year, Sam came to New York City as a senior
- editor. He is still getting used to a strange idea: as a
- correspondent he divided the world into us and them, and "now,
- suddenly, I'm `them.' " His new post, he says, "requires a total
- attitude adjustment. One day you're a reporter in the field, the
- next day you're dispatching reporters. Your perspective flips 180
- degrees."
- </p>
- <p> Following Sam's direction on this week's stories, his
- collaborators discovered some things they shared, even beyond
- serious worries about what the temp trend is doing to American
- industry. Says associate editor Janice Castro, who wrote the main
- story: "The same qualities that made Sam a good reporter serve him
- as an editor. He is energetically curious--a sleeves-rolled-up
- guy who loves to find out what people are thinking and why." Dan
- Goodgame, who succeeded Sam as our national economics
- correspondent, has a slightly different perspective: he calls
- Gwynne "the first Welshman I've met who can't sing" but who also
- can't stop trying. Our advice to Sam: keep your day job.
- </p>
- <p> Elizabeth Valk Long
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