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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 14
Don't be surprised, if you're traveling outside the U.S. or
Canada this week, to find TIME with a different cover than the one
on this edition. The cover story elsewhere is about the crisis
facing Carlos Saul Menem, the incoming President of Argentina,
instead of the Pete Rose gambling scandal. The domestic story on
gambling runs in a somewhat shorter form inside the other editions.
These changes are only the most prominent features of the
increasingly rich and specialized editing that TIME provides each
week in 5.6 million copies circulated throughout countries around
the world.
TIME's first overseas editions, produced for U.S. forces during
World War II, were known as pony editions, for their compact size
and reduced news content. During World War II, we also started
publishing a Canadian edition that included a special section of
news about our northern neighbor. That edition was expanded in
1962, with the opening of an editorial office in Montreal, and
began publishing occasional Canadian cover stories.
The concept moved on to Europe in 1973 and Asia in 1976. In
Australia we offer additional local coverage through a joint
venture with John Fairfax & Sons Ltd. Last year the various
international editions of TIME carried a total of 53 cover stories
that did not appear in the U.S.
In addition to running different covers, these editions contain
an enriched diet of world news, reporting not only on politics but
also on business and back-of-the-book subjects from art to video.
The international editions even have several sections of their own,
including Traveler's Advisory, a breezy guide to special events
throughout the world; Readings, a survey of important books
published outside the U.S.; and Cultures, a chronicle of the
idiosyncratic sensitivities and surprising similarities of
societies around the world.
The purpose throughout is to offer citizens of the global
village a selection of practical information that is tailored to
their needs, while remaining attentive to regional concerns. We
took an additional step in that direction in April by becoming the
first global newsmagazine to convert to all-color printing in all
editions (a capability we've had in the U.S. since 1984).
All this, says international editor Karsten Prager, makes for
a certain pleasant irony. "As the world has become smaller, our
charter has grown bigger than ever."