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- Nov. 20, 1989: From The Managing Editor
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 20, 1989 Freedom!
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR, Page 23
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- <p> This week I am borrowing the space that usually belongs to
- my colleague, TIME's worldwide publisher Bob Miller, because I
- want to share with you my excitement over the issue in your
- hands. We journalists take much of our job satisfaction from the
- sense that we are constantly recording history as it is made,
- each day and each week. Last week history came pounding over the
- wires into our offices and then out to the presses with unusual
- drama and clarity.
- </p>
- <p> Tuesday's elections gave us America's first elected black
- Governor, Doug Wilder of Virginia. That event, along with an
- analysis of the progress blacks have made in other contests,
- and Lance Morrow's account of his return to the grass roots of
- Prince Edward County, was our cover story until Thursday
- afternoon. But then came the stunning announcement that East
- Germans be allowed to travel through the Berlin Wall and would
- be granted freer elections as well. Bonn bureau chief Jim
- Jackson called me to urge that we change the cover, but my
- fellow editors and I hardly needed to be persuaded. Our
- twelve-page cover treatment on East Germany includes a vivid
- pictorial record of this emotional moment in history and a
- thoughtful assessment of what these changes may mean for Europe
- -- and for all of us. We're still giving you the full Wilder
- story in the Nation section.
- </p>
- <p> History isn't written only in headlines, any more than news
- is all made by diplomats and politicians. Consider the ETHICS
- story on the efforts of gays to win legal recognition for their
- relationships. Or the report in IDEAS on Japanese author
- Shintaro Ishihara's blunt criticisms of American attitudes. We
- have exclusive excerpts in WORLD from a private memo Richard
- Nixon sent to congressional leaders after his recent China
- visit. By the way, you'll notice that we've moved INTERVIEW to
- a new position near the front of the magazine, ahead of NATION.
- </p>
- <p> It was an exhilarating week to be an editor. I hope that as
- you read this issue you will catch our excitement over the
- events and ideas in the air.
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