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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
During the climactic hours of the gulf war, Defense Secretary
Dick Cheney was briefing President Bush on the strategy of the
ground assault. There was no map of the Middle East war zone
readily available in the White House family quarters for Cheney
to refer to. "Oh, I have a map," responded the President. He
reached over and spread out the one appearing in that week's
issue of TIME.
When the President's photographer David Valdez recounted
the incident on ABC's Good Morning America, TIME's graphics
director Nigel Holmes had reason to be pleased. Early in the war
a commercial map company had proposed to TIME and other
publications that they purchase reprint rights to the firm's
maps of the area. Managing editor Henry Muller preferred to rely
on our in-house team led by Holmes, whose wizardry with graphics
has graced the pages of TIME since he came to the magazine in
1978 from London.
TIME's mapmakers keep busy every week: witness the display
on the Kurds' struggle against Saddam Hussein that accompanies
this issue's cover stories. But the gulf pullout was the most
complex map TIME had ever undertaken. Working with Holmes were
cartographer Paul J. Pugliese, illustrators Steven D. Hart and
Joe Lertola, map researcher Deborah L. Wells and artist Nino
Telak. Thanks to computers, all six staff members were able to
work on the map simultaneously. Even so, the costly project took
them a total of 10 days. (In addition to the pullout maps
enclosed in the 6.9 million magazines that were sent to
domestic and foreign subscribers and sold at newsstands, more
than 400,000 copies have been requested by readers.)
The 14 1/2-in. by 19 3/4-in. pullout in the Feb. 25 issue
was based on a design that Holmes had devised for the detailed
maps that appeared in TIME every week after the war began.
Holmes chose to depict Iraq in bold blood red and the seas in
black to convey the starkness of war. The back of the map showed
the weaponry being used by both sides.
With most of the maps that are published in TIME week by
week, says Holmes, the staff's challenge is to "pare things
down." The battle map provided a welcome opportunity to do the
opposite. "We decided to put in lots of information and let
people spend some time with it. It was very nice to know that
people wanted our services."
-- Robert L. Miller