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Michael takes over from Jeff Penberthy, TIME AUSTRALIA's founding editor, who is stepping back at his own request to become Gawenda's principal deputy. Although Jeff will remain closely involved with TIME AUSTRALIA, helping conceive and edit stories, he intends to devote more time to a young family; his third and fourth children were born during his years at the editor's helm. Eventually, as Jeff told me a few months ago, the clasping and yelling at his knee every morning seemed to be drowning out all the other squeals for attention. "Michael has produced much of the edition...
...began dictating his address to the nation and the international community. I went to my room, and Olga typed the statement on shershavka -- thick paper specially used for presidential notes. In the evening I asked him to sign and date it. At the top, the President wrote a request to anybody who received it to publicize this statement by any means...
...issue resurfaced 20 years later, when the Under-graduate Council voted to work towards bringing ROTC back to campus. That student government vote, in April of 1989, sparked an outpouring of daily heated protests, leading the council to repeal its original request just one week later...
...Sept. 11, Bush and his advisers met with Republican congressional leaders and phoned other lawmakers of both parties to assess the situation. "They were afraid to oppose Israel's request unless the President showed that he would go all the way, take the debate out of the backrooms, where the lobby almost always wins, and take it to the American public," a White House official said...
...novelist's Karla, the fabled communist spy master. Markus Wolf, former chief of the foreign intelligence arm of Stasi, East Germany's dreaded secret police, emerged in Vienna last week, where he had been secretly living since Aug. 30. He applied for political asylum in Austria -- a request that was promptly denied. The wily spy chief, who is wanted in Germany on espionage charges, is currently free on appeal...