Word: prager
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...tyranny was indeed over. With joy and assurance they voted in Premier Adolfo Suárez, rejecting the extremes of both right and left. In our cover story this week, we examine the nation's emotional yet orderly transition from dictatorship to democracy. Madrid Correspondent Karsten Prager was struck by Spain's ability to emerge so smoothly from a political vacuum. "There are not many parallels," says Prager, "even though the political changes of the past 18 months might have gone deeper, and even though reform was not so much negotiated as conceded...
After four decades of what one Basque described as the "boca cerrada " (closed mouth). Prager did find that many citizens were reluctant to speak with reporters. Suárez too has avoided the press, although he granted Prager an off-the-record interview at Moncloa Palace a few days before the election. Sums up Prager: "Suárez has kept his counsel and his cool. He is plainly aware that Spain has changed and continues to change, that the new look in the society is more than cosmetic, and that the new look in politics will have to follow suit...
This effort involved many of our correspondents around the world. Madrid Bureau Chief Karsten Prager flew to Tenerife early in the week to begin assembling our detailed account of the tragic crash of the 747s. While he was interviewing the officials involved and the survivors, TIME staffers in London. Amsterdam and our U.S. bureaus talked with pilots, aviation officials and other experts about the entire state of air safety in general...
...Karsten Prager has been TIME'S Beirut bureau chief since August 1973. After returning to New York, he filed this assessment of a tragic, fratricidal conflict...
...nine women elected to serve as officers of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association are Ellen McHugh LaFollett '54, second vice president; Nancy Woodman Dressler '49, treasurer; Noelle Blackmer Beatty '54, Christine E. Bishop '68 and Zena Prager Nemetz '46, directors...