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<text id=91TT0311>
<title>
Feb. 11, 1991: From The Managing Editor
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Feb. 11, 1991 Saddam's Weird War
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR, Page 18
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<p> TIME is read not only in the U.S. but also by millions of
people overseas. So, how does one adapt a quintessentially
American newsmagazine for the rest of the world? The process
is both Herculean and alchemical, involving such minutiae as
the transmutation of impenetrable Americanisms and the
replacement of American measures with metric, as well as the
production of entire sections and cover stories that speak
specifically to Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada and
Australia.
</p>
<p> Each week a staff of 32 based in New York City works with
our 19 bureaus around the world to shape stories, cull pictures
and lay out the pages for the fraternal twin of the U.S.
edition. With a circulation of 1.5 million, TIME International
produced 1,500 pages on its own last year, including 37 cover
stories. It has, in short, become a magazine in its own right--and as such it needs the editorial organization that will
ensure its further growth and vitality. Effective this week,
Karsten Prager becomes managing editor of TIME International,
and his deputy, Joe Ferrer, assistant managing editor.
</p>
<p> Born in the East Prussian capital of Konigsberg (now
Kaliningrad in the Soviet Union), Prager went to the U.S. as
a student before embarking on a journalistic career that
included long stints in Southeast Asia, where he covered the
Vietnam War, and in the Middle East, where he was one of the
first Western journalists, in 1975, to interview Saddam
Hussein.
</p>
<p> Ferrer joined TIME in 1963 and soon earned a reputation as
one of the magazine's masters of editing. It is a talent he has
shared generously over the years, leading many a neophyte
writer through the intricacies and nuances of his craft. Says
one writer: "Even when you think there isn't room to improve
a story, Joe can make it better." Since overseeing TIME's
coverage of the 1988 Olympics, Ferrer has worked closely with
Prager in nurturing TIME International's growth as well as
managing the complex logistics of 10 different editions each
week.
</p>
<p> "It's been a long and erratic evolution since TIME Europe
first came out in 1973," says Prager. "But the process does not
stand still. We want to make this magazine as international as
possible without losing sight of the fact that it is by birth
an American creation." With Prager and Ferrer at the helm, TIME
International will assuredly not stand still.
</p>
<p>-- Henry Muller
</p>
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