Vol. 135 No. 21
NATION
American Notes CRIME
A Vested Interest
American Notes DISASTERS
The Southwest Goes Under
American Notes JUSTICE
A Shocking Way to Go
American Notes NEW YORK CITY
Begging the Question
Big Bad John Sununu
He's smarter than you are, and he wants you to know it. That's why George Bush prizes his brusque but brilliant White House chief of staff
Ignore My Lips
And forget Sununu too, Bush tells Congress, as he calls a budget summit and hints that it may even talk about -- shhh! -- raising t---
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It's Ugly, But It Works
Fears about the environment fuel a revolution on the farm
Loser of the Week (Grapevine)
The Daddy Warbucks Gold Money Clip (Grapevine)
The Madame Defarge Rabbit's Foot (Grapevine)
Watergate (Grapevine)
Where are they now?
Who Needs the Marines?
From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of redundancy
Winner of the Week (Grapevine)
WORLD
In Africa too, authoritarian regimes are giving way to multiparty systems. But can democracy thrive in countries that cannot even feed themselves?
Albania And Then There Were None
Reform comes to Europe's last Stalinist state
Kenya: The Surprising Holdout
Nationalism's Silver Lining
A Soviet Communist Party analyst reflects candidly on his country's problems
Panama Sincerely, Manuel Writing from Miami, Noriega stirs up trouble back home
Romania Two Cheers for the Front Runner
Though Iliescu leads in the polls, many voters doubt he will bring Western-style democracy to a tempestuous political scene
South Korea Kicking and Screaming
Students charge that Roh's goal is to accumulate power
World Notes CHINA
It's All in The Timing
World Notes IRAN
Clearing the Underbrush
World Notes IRAQ
Happy Birthday To Me . . .
World Notes SOVIET UNION
Brickbats from The Baltics
HEALTH & MEDICINE
The Government considers tough new rules for weight-loss firms
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BUSINESS
Business Notes COLLECTIBLES
Fine Art's Blue Period
Business Notes CREDIT
Lighten Up, Lenders
Business Notes ENTERTAINMENT
Warning: Rock Music Ahead
Business Notes SALES PROMOTIONS
Bargain for the Born Again
Business Notes SPORTS EQUIPMENT
Putting a Lid On Cyclists
Encore, Encore
A faster, bigger Concorde could cost $10 billion or more
If The Loot's There, He'll Find It
S&L crooks beware: private eye Edmund Pankau is on your trail
Shooting The Works Lights! Camera! Money!
Hollywood is on a spree!
EDUCATION
Must women's colleges like Mills either go coed or go under?
Fighting The Failure Syndrome
A radical proposal for black boys: separate classes
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
A Sleeper with a Dream (Video)
After the eerie Twin Peaks, TV may never be the same again
Doing The Ultimate Deal (Cinema)
Jailhouse Blues (Books)
One To Miss (Books)
Saturday-Night Sizzle (Show Business)
A raunchy comic's guest shot makes women see red
SPECIAL SECTION
Though times have changed on the old boulevards, the moveable feast continues
PEOPLE
Sakharov And Solzhenitsyn: a Difference in Principle (Sakharov)
Testing The Limits Of Middle Age Mark Spitz won seven gold medals in the 1972 Olympics. He's now 40 years old, but he really believes he'll be in Barcelona in 1992 (Interview)
The Wallenberg Mystery (Sakharov)
Who Murdered Lake Baikal? (Sakharov)
Years In Exile (Sakharov)