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- <text id=90TT1833>
- <title>
- July 09, 1990: From The Managing Editor
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 09, 1990 Abortion's Most Wrenching Questions
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR, Page 4
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- <body>
- <p> Several times in the past decade, TIME's worldwide editions
- have devoted entire issues to a single, very compelling topic:
- the Soviet Union in 1980, Japan in 1983, immigrants to the U.S.
- in 1985 and the Soviet Union again in 1989. Two weeks ago, for
- the first time, we prepared a special issue on German
- unification expressly for our international audience. American
- readers will find highlights from this issue in the magazine
- this week.
- </p>
- <p> Our decision to produce a special issue overseas reflects
- not only the importance of the subject but also our commitment
- to a global audience. With an Atlantic circulation of 510,000,
- TIME is the largest international weekly newsmagazine in
- Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The same is true in Asia,
- with 270,000 copies sold weekly. We also sell 350,000 magazines
- a week in Canada, 90,000 in Latin America and 145,000 in the
- South Pacific. With an additional 4 million issues in the U.S.,
- we have a worldwide circulation of more than 5.3 million, for
- an estimated readership of 30 million.
- </p>
- <p> Our approach abroad is based on the premise that foreign
- readers know more about certain subjects than Americans do--and less about others. We delete stories that are of purely
- national concern (for example, on U.S. sports) and add others
- that are of interest abroad.
- </p>
- <p> The person in charge of this complex operation is assistant
- managing editor Karsten Prager. Born in 1936 in the East
- Prussian capital of Konigsberg (now the Soviet city of
- Kaliningrad), he finished secondary school in Recklinghausen,
- West Germany. He made his first visit to the U.S. in 1952 as
- an exchange student in Bronson, Mich., and later graduated from
- the University of Michigan. Prager joined TIME in 1965 as a
- correspondent in the Hong Kong bureau and has worked in
- Vietnam, New York City, San Francisco, Beirut and Madrid. He
- oversaw the Germany issue and, in a story based on
- conversations with eleven former classmates, looked at how
- Germans of his generation have fared. "They have no heroes,"
- he says, "but they are proud that their country has become a
- mature democracy so firmly embedded in an integrated Europe."
- </p>
- <p>-- Henry Muller
- </p>
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- </article>
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