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- Dec. 18, 1989: From The Publisher
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Dec. 18, 1989 Money Laundering
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- <p> Journalists usually go about their jobs by chasing down
- rumors and interviewing sources. Sometimes, though, reporters
- learn a lot by gathering experts in one room and firing
- questions at them. If the mix of guests is right and the topic
- intriguing enough, the conversation can be as exciting to cover
- as a revolution or a natural disaster. In fact, revolutions and
- nature were on the agendas of two TIME-sponsored conferences
- that we report on in this week's issue.
- </p>
- <p> Fifteen TIME journalists met with five experts on European
- affairs in Brussels last week to discuss the changes sweeping
- across the East bloc. "The situation is so volatile that even
- journalists have trouble keeping up," says assistant managing
- editor Karsten Prager, who originally scheduled the one-day
- session for January but then decided that sooner would be better
- than later. "The conference helped establish some sense of where
- things might be heading."
- </p>
- <p> Several weeks earlier, TIME had convened a group of 14
- scientists and policymakers for an all-day conference on the
- environmental crisis. The meeting, held in Alexandria, Va., and
- organized by Washington correspondent Dick Thompson, was a
- follow-up to a 1988 ecological symposium that led to TIME's
- selection of the endangered earth as Planet of the Year. "This
- has been a busy year," says sciences editor Charles Alexander.
- "We ran a story on the environment about every other week,
- including reports on logging in the Northwest and Japan's
- environmental practices, and covers on the Exxon Valdez oil
- spill in Alaska and the rain forests in the Amazon." Our guests
- at both conferences at least agreed on one thing: next year
- promises to be as hectic as this year on the international and
- environmental fronts.
- </p>
- <p> The Alexandria participants were: Lester Brown, Worldwatch
- Institute; John Chafee, U.S. Senate, Rhode Island; Michael
- Deland, Council on Environmental Quality; Kathryn Fuller, World
- Wildlife Fund; Albert Gore, U.S. Senate, Tennessee; Denis Hayes,
- Earth Day 1990; Thomas Lovejoy, Smithsonian Institution; Michael
- McElroy, Harvard University; Kenneth Piddington, World Bank
- Environment Department; Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden;
- F. Sherwood Rowland, University of California at Irvine; James
- Gustave Speth, World Resources Institute; Mostafa Tolba, United
- Nations Environment Program; and Alexei Yablokov, Congress of
- People's Deputies, U.S.S.R.
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