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President Milosevic spoke with managing editor James R. Gaines, editor at large Karsten Prager, Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi and correspondent Marguerite Michaels...
...Cali chieftain Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela in Colombia, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo discussed his nation's involvement in the drug war with a group of TIME journalists. Meeting with Zedillo in his office at the Los Pinos presidential residence were managing editor James R. Gaines, editor at large Karsten Prager and Latin American bureau chief Laura Lopez...
Thank you for TIME editor Karsten Prager's account of his family's journey to freedom in the last days of the war [MEMOIRS, May 15]. Few remember that the Third Reich spread a blanket of suffering over everyone -- victors as well as vanquished. Like Prager's family, mine fled westward from advancing Russian troops. When my mother escaped with her four underage children, there were only cattle cars available on the last train. Like Prager, I spent time in refugee camps. With a Polish father, a German mother and a grandfather named Abram, "Germans" such as us were about...
...found Prager's wartime story "Flight to Freedom" moving and nostalgic. I am one of thousands who had a similar experience. I grew up in Latvia and was a green high-schooler when, in 1945, I was sent to work at forced labor by the Germans. After the war, I ended up in a displaced-persons camp and managed to emigrate to England. There I studied art, and finally came to Canada. Powerful memories of those chaotic days are with me still. ELMAR DAMBERGS Rosseau, Canada...
...Prager's memoirs provided a refreshing contrast to the flags, fanfares and festivities commemorating V-E day that we in Britain were subjected to. It is well known that the British are not particularly Euro-friendly, but if the British adult population wishes to partake in and build Europe for my generation, then surely the time for anti-German propaganda, abundant during the past few weeks, is over. Realistically, our German counterparts cannot enjoy watching Britain relive her glory in the face of so much German suffering, shame and sorrow. Victory in today's Europe is what is important...