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<text id=93TT1294>
<title>
Mar. 29, 1993: From The Publisher
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 29, 1993 Yeltsin's Last Stand
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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<p> Midway through Sam Gwynne's varied career--French teacher,
international banker, prizewinning correspondent--he and his
wife Katie became temporary workers: royalties from Sam's 1986
book, Selling Money, had run out, and they needed some income
while looking for permanent employment. Gwynne worked briefly
as a "production assistant" on a TV commercial (his job: raking
and reraking sand on a beach to smooth it out after strollers
had walked by) and as a secretary at Southern California Gas
Co. Sam vividly remembers the unnerving insecurity that helped
inspire this week's stories on temporary workers: "No health
insurance, no pension plan, no protection against arbitrary
termination."
</p>
<p> Where Sam worked next turned out to be TIME. He joined the
staff in 1988 as a correspondent in Los Angeles, became chief of
the Detroit bureau and national economics correspondent based in
Washington. With us, he found not only security but also renown:
Gwynne and TIME correspondent Jonathan Beaty won three major
awards last year for their exposes of how the Bank of Credit
& Commerce International ran a one-stop shopping center for
criminals, corrupt leaders and official intelligence agencies
around the world. Random House will publish their jointly written
book on B.C.C.I., The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret
Heart of B.C.C.I., later this month.
</p>
<p> Early this year, Sam came to New York City as a senior
editor. He is still getting used to a strange idea: as a
correspondent he divided the world into us and them, and "now,
suddenly, I'm `them.' " His new post, he says, "requires a total
attitude adjustment. One day you're a reporter in the field, the
next day you're dispatching reporters. Your perspective flips 180
degrees."
</p>
<p> Following Sam's direction on this week's stories, his
collaborators discovered some things they shared, even beyond
serious worries about what the temp trend is doing to American
industry. Says associate editor Janice Castro, who wrote the main
story: "The same qualities that made Sam a good reporter serve him
as an editor. He is energetically curious--a sleeves-rolled-up
guy who loves to find out what people are thinking and why." Dan
Goodgame, who succeeded Sam as our national economics
correspondent, has a slightly different perspective: he calls
Gwynne "the first Welshman I've met who can't sing" but who also
can't stop trying. Our advice to Sam: keep your day job.
</p>
<p> Elizabeth Valk Long
</p>
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