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Vann hopes to double the black registration in Brooklyn to 400,000 by 1985 and help some candidate grab city hall away from Ed Koch, who Vann feels is indifferent to black concerns. The soft-spoken Vann spends several nights a week going door-to-door canvassing unregistered voters. "My approach is from the grass roots," he says. "If you don't have power there, you don't have it anywhere...
Stern's Editor in Chief Peter Koch refused to retreat. He flew to New York, carrying the first and last volumes in the series. He displayed them on national TV, defending them as genuine. Koch airily told American reporters: "I expected the uproar and expected that many incompetent people would denounce the diaries as fakes. This is because every other publishing house will envy our story and every historian will envy...
Stern's editorial workers, now even more distressed, met once again to discuss the fiasco. They presented a list of demands to their editors, but would not make them public. One employee reported: "Everyone is panicking. No one can believe that this is happening to us." Editor Koch's head was the first to roll. He submitted his resignation, as did another top editor, Felix Schmidt...
...sound ground but playing an awkward role was Kenneth Rendell, a Newton, Mass., autograph analyst who was paid $8,000 by Newsweek magazine. Also separately advising Stern, he put the two volumes brought to New York by Koch under his microscope, photocopied and enlarged the words, and concluded that the books were forgeries. When he told this to Koch, Rendell says, "he was absolutely devastated." At week's end Rendell said that his sole interest was to pursue his theories about how "this mess," as he called it, had been created. He predicted teasingly and without explanation: "There is potentially...
...reporting by Heidemann's former Stern colleague Jochen von Lang. Heidemann was unavailable to explain the apparent discrepancy; he has declined all requests for interviews. Most troubling to fellow journalists, Heidemann refused to disclose his sources, even on a confidential basis, to his editors at Stem. But Editor Koch professed to have no worries. Said he: "We have every reason to trust Heidemann thoroughly...