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<text id=91TT0775>
<title>
Apr. 08, 1991: Maxwell's Hall Of Shame
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Apr. 08, 1991 The Simple Life
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 21
Maxwell's Hall of Shame
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<p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
</p>
<p> Robert Maxwell sailed into the turbulent New York City
newspaper world with his eleventh-hour purchase of the ailing
Daily News. But News editors beware! The British media magnate
has shown some rather peculiar proclivities as a publisher. His
Pergamon Press, soon to be sold to a Dutch firm, produced a
World Leaders series that seemed to specialize in official or
groveling accounts of dictators. All have since been discredited
and relegated to history's scrap heap. Among the titles:
</p>
<p> Nicolae Ceausescu: Builder of Modern Romania and
International Statesman, 1983. In an introduction, Maxwell
grilled the strongman (who was executed in the 1989 uprising):
"What has, in your opinion, made you so popular with the
Romanians?"
</p>
<p> Erich Honecker: From My Life, 1981. His vital role in the
construction of the Berlin Wall is proudly recounted by the
ousted East German party leader, who was whisked off to the
Soviet Union last month to receive "medical treatment"--and
to evade a life sentence for allegedly ordering border guards
to shoot East Germans trying to escape his regime.
</p>
<p> Janos Kadar: Selected Speeches and Interviews, 1985. A
mind-numbing collection from Hungary's collaborationist leader,
who was removed as party leader in 1988.
</p>
<p> Wojciech Jaruzelski: Prime Minister of Poland, 1985. A
laudatory portrait of the father of martial law, who so
impressed Maxwell during a 1985 meeting in Warsaw that the
publisher declared in a radio interview that the Solidarity
problem was "solved."
</p>
<p> Todor Zhivkov: Statesman and Builder of New Bulgaria,
1982. One year after this admiring biography was published,
Zhivkov, now under house arrest for corruption and stealing
state funds, awarded Maxwell the Order of Stara Planina for "the
strengthening of peace between peoples."
</p>
</body></article>
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