Vol. 134 No. 7

NATION

"A Stupid Posting"

American Notes CONGRESS
Savage's Suit Pursuit

American Notes MICHIGAN
Fatal Overreaction

American Notes TEXAS
Runway Rap Session

American Notes WASHINGTON
King of Cardboard

An Unlikely Target

Can Pro-Choicers Prevail?
Feminists squabble over strategy for protecting abortion rights

Not Again A grisly image of a dead hostage outrages the U.S.
With few options, Bush gets a surprising hint of help from Iran

Fighting On Two Fronts
Bennett's drug plan targets dealers -- and casual users

Politics And Double Standards
A Senate committee rejects another Bush appointee

Texas Time Machine
A generation late, civil rights protests arrive in Dallas

The Presidency
The Courage of Restraint

The Undeclared War
American losses in Lebanon

WORLD

America Abroad
A Firm No to the Tiger

Britain Is This Denis a Menace?
Margaret Thatcher's husband stays popular by keeping "a pace behind her, old chap" -- and by keeping his views quiet

Japan Same Old Story
In the back room, party elders pick a fresh but docile leader

Poland To the Brink -- and Back Again
The Sejm barely agrees on a new Prime Minister as price hikes threaten trouble

Refugees A Modern Balkan Exodus
Bulgaria calls them Slavs, but ethnic Turks prefer to flee

Soviet Union Chipping Away at an Icon
Even Lenin, long untouchable, is now coming in for some debunking

World Notes BRITAIN
Money Down The Drain?

World Notes CHILE
Setting The Stage

World Notes CYPRUS
Handing Back The Loot

World Notes SOVIET UNION
A Dose of Nuclear Fallout

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Coroners Who Miss All the Clues (Medicine)
Too many medical investigators are ill prepared to spot crimes

Hard Looks at Hormones (Medicine)
Drugs to ease the toll of menopause are linked to breast cancer

New Hope (Medicine)
AZT slows the onset of AIDS

SOCIETY

Come On In, The Water's Fine! (Living)
Americans try new ways to make a splash and keep cool

PRESS

To March or Not to March
Reporters' own beliefs about abortion become an issue

RELIGION

Secrets of The Dead Sea Scrolls
A scholarly squabble over an archaeological treasure

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Time Magazine Contents Page (Contents)
Vol. 134 No. 7 AUGUST 14, 1989

Time Magazine Masthead (Masthead)
Vol. 134 No. 7 AUGUST 14, 1989

BUSINESS

Business Notes BAILOUTS
Midnight Budgetry

Business Notes CONFECTIONS
Only a Kid Can Love It

Business Notes ENERGY
Cow-Chip Power? No Bull

Business Notes LAWSUITS
Libel on The Line

Business Notes TRADEMARKS
Imitated But Not Flattered

Lbos: Let's Bail Out
If the economy goes south, debt-heavy buyouts could go under

Losing Big on Capital Gains
A shortsighted plan to slash the tax rate may be unstoppable

Snakes in The Pits
The FBI busts 46 commodities traders in Chicago

Welcome to The World of Sleaze

EDUCATION

How To Tackle School Reform
Three states rise to the challenge and provide valuable lessons

LAW

Taking Apartheid to Court
With U.S. help, legal activism is on the rise in South Africa

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

And Now for the Hard Sell (Video)
The networks turn to games and gimmicks to hawk their wares

Critics' Choice (Critics' Choice)

Earning His Stripes (Art)
Sean Scully makes something special of a simple motif

Family Ties (Cinema)

Hail Cesar (Books)

Rich Man, Poor Man (Books)

Water Bomb (Cinema)

PEOPLE

When East And West Collide (Profile)
DAVID HENRY HWANG proves bedfellows make strange politics in M. Butterfly, a surprise stage success on three continents

TO OUR READERS

From the Publisher (From The Publisher)

ESSAY

A Loony Parody of Cultural Democracy