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- <title>
- Apr. 15, 1991: From The Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 15, 1991 Saddam's Latest Victims
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- <p> During the climactic hours of the gulf war, Defense Secretary
- Dick Cheney was briefing President Bush on the strategy of the
- ground assault. There was no map of the Middle East war zone
- readily available in the White House family quarters for Cheney
- to refer to. "Oh, I have a map," responded the President. He
- reached over and spread out the one appearing in that week's
- issue of TIME.
- </p>
- <p> When the President's photographer David Valdez recounted
- the incident on ABC's Good Morning America, TIME's graphics
- director Nigel Holmes had reason to be pleased. Early in the war
- a commercial map company had proposed to TIME and other
- publications that they purchase reprint rights to the firm's
- maps of the area. Managing editor Henry Muller preferred to rely
- on our in-house team led by Holmes, whose wizardry with graphics
- has graced the pages of TIME since he came to the magazine in
- 1978 from London.
- </p>
- <p> TIME's mapmakers keep busy every week: witness the display
- on the Kurds' struggle against Saddam Hussein that accompanies
- this issue's cover stories. But the gulf pullout was the most
- complex map TIME had ever undertaken. Working with Holmes were
- cartographer Paul J. Pugliese, illustrators Steven D. Hart and
- Joe Lertola, map researcher Deborah L. Wells and artist Nino
- Telak. Thanks to computers, all six staff members were able to
- work on the map simultaneously. Even so, the costly project took
- them a total of 10 days. (In addition to the pullout maps
- enclosed in the 6.9 million magazines that were sent to
- domestic and foreign subscribers and sold at newsstands, more
- than 400,000 copies have been requested by readers.)
- </p>
- <p> The 14 1/2-in. by 19 3/4-in. pullout in the Feb. 25 issue
- was based on a design that Holmes had devised for the detailed
- maps that appeared in TIME every week after the war began.
- Holmes chose to depict Iraq in bold blood red and the seas in
- black to convey the starkness of war. The back of the map showed
- the weaponry being used by both sides.
- </p>
- <p> With most of the maps that are published in TIME week by
- week, says Holmes, the staff's challenge is to "pare things
- down." The battle map provided a welcome opportunity to do the
- opposite. "We decided to put in lots of information and let
- people spend some time with it. It was very nice to know that
- people wanted our services."
- </p>
- <p>-- Robert L. Miller
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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