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<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>
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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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