Vol. 133 No. 14
NATION
Does the U.S. really need a new nuclear missile?
America Abroad
How to Move the Immovable
American Notes NEW YORK CITY
Ruling Out The Board
American Notes PARKS
Mott Out, Fund Raisers In
American Notes RIGHTS
A Chairman's Odd Antics
American Notes TAXES
A Kinder Collector
An Attack Dog, Not a Lapdog
House Republicans make feisty Newt Gingrich their No. 2 man
Dea Don Juan
How a coke Casanova turned 'em on and turned 'em in
Good Place for A Test Case
Washington may be the first front in Bennett's drug war
Recrossing The Thin Blue Line
Randall Adams is free of everything but the media
The Diaspora's Discontent
U.S. Jews are leaning on Shamir to bend his rigid policies
Water Marketing A Deal That Might Save A Sierra (American Ideas)
Gem Negotiators are trying to sustain Mono Lake by buying irrigation water from unused fields
WORLD
The U.S. is disappointed in the outcome of El Salvador's election, but Bush and Congress get their act together on Nicaragua
Following An Independent Course
Breaking his silence, Syria's Assad talks about Arafat, Khomeini and hostages
India The Awakening of An Asian Power
Armed and assertive, the world's most populous democracy takes its place as a military heavyweight
Scandals More Sex Please, We're British
Tattlers remake the Profumo scandal in the tabs and onscreen
World Notes AFGHANISTAN
Impasse at Jalalabad
World Notes AUSTRALIA
True Confessions
World Notes SOUTH KOREA
Breaking a Promise
World Notes SOVIET UNION
Revolt of the Scientists
SCIENCE
A tanker hits an Alaskan reef, leaving an eight-mile oil slick
HEALTH & MEDICINE
A historic fetal-cell transplant may have saved a boy's life
SPORT
Pete Rose faces gambling charges -- and a threatened legacy
TECHNOLOGY
Biometrics could make keys and combination locks obsolete
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Vol. 133 No. 14 APRIL 3, 1989
BUSINESS
Bad Day for A Behemoth
Business Notes BUBBLE-GUM CARDS
A Dither over The Dirty Ones
Business Notes MINIMUM WAGE
How Much Is Just Enough?
Business Notes TRIALS
Sorry, We Can't Decide
Don't Mess Around with Jim Small farmers love him, but pesticide makers think he's poison
Reach Out And Rob Someone
Scam artists who work the phones are bilking consumers of $1 billion or more a year
Step on The Gas, Pay the Price
As the U.S. gulps more oil and discovers less, imports take off
The Quiet Little Dutch Invader
Fokker's new jetliner scores a $3 billion sale in the U.S.
EDUCATION
How the national obsession with winning and moneymaking is turning big-time college sports into an educational scandal that, for too many players, leads down a one-way path to broken dreams
Playing To Win in Vegas
LAW
The Supreme Court upholds screening employees in the lab
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Doing Things His Way (Books)
Going Beyond Brand Names (Books)
Some superb new mysteries from lesser-known writers
Raw Talk, but Cooked Painting (Art)
A show surveys innovation and tradition in 20th century Italy
Star Wars at the Networks (Video)
With a premium on news programming, the aim is charisma
The Message Is the Message (Books)
PEOPLE
PATRICK KELLY, Mississippi's smash hit in the tough world of high fashion, prefers to think of himself as a "black male Lucille Ball"