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COVER: Captain Joseph Hazelwood was the best skipper in Exxon's fleet until his tanker rammed an Alaskan reef and caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history
As the ship's captain, Hazelwood bears the ultimate responsibility for the wreck of the Exxon Valdez. But his actions were not the only factors that contributed to the disaster. An exclusive TIME report unveils a wider web of culpability in which Exxon and the Coast Guard must share the blame. See ENVIRONMENT.
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NATION: In Poland and Hungary, the President nudges Eastern Europe toward democracy and free markets
From breaking bread with Solidarity and Communist bosses in Warsaw to exhorting students in Budapest, Bush plays a winning hand of personal diplomacy. -- The Paris summit underscores a new reality: European nations, not the U.S., may be more able to guide the West's response to changes in the Communist bloc. -- An errant plane, a crash with a miraculous outcome, a puzzling wound.
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WORLD: A decade after seizing power, Nicaragua's Sandinistas preside over a nation grown yet more miserable
Once welcomed as liberators of a land enslaved in Somoza servitude, the revolutionary F.S.L.N. has proved adept at only one thing: holding on to misused power. -- Leaders of Israel's Labor Party threaten to pull out of the national-unity government. -- By meeting with Botha, South Africa's Mandela gives his blessing to direct talks between blacks and the government.
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BUSINESS: A judge opens the way for a media megadeal
A Delaware court rejects Paramount's challenge to the $14 billion combination of Time Inc. and Warner Communications, but the merger is temporarily stayed to allow an appeal.
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PRESS: How reporters missed the HUD story
A multibillion-dollar scandal during the Reagan years is now front- page news. Where was the Washington press back then? -- Time Inc. will start ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY.
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SPACE: America should embark on a mission to Mars
Two decades after the first moon landing, President Bush has a chance to launch an ambitious, long-term program that will give NASA a goal and restore the nation's technological prowess.
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SHOW BUSINESS: Laurence Olivier is dead at 82
For one generation he was Heathcliff and Hamlet; for another, the wily granddad of movie melodrama. And for the ages this prodigious, protean figure was our century's greatest actor.
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INTERVIEW: Far away from the Gulag Archipelago, a Russian expatriate and sage in Vermont
With the updating and new English translation of his novel August 1914, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn offers the first installment of a vast epic cycle about the events that led to the Bolshevik Revolution. He also breaks a long silence to give his first major interview since 1979. Solzhenitsyn speaks candidly about his work, his harrowing past, his life in the West and the evil nature of Lenin.
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ETHICS: Painful dilemmas over frozen embryos
The growing practice of in-vitro fertilization has raised a tangle of issues. Who has rights over the resulting embryo -- the doctor? the parents? And what rights does the embryo have?
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ESSAY: If the Palestinians win, so will Israel
The dangerous notion that the intifadeh must be defeated rather than calmed transcends Israel's current political crisis. True statesmen would seek victory for everyone.
6 Letters
8 American Scene
49 Travel
49 Milestones
53 Cinema
62 Technology
65 People
Cover: Illustration by Paul Davis