Vol. 134 No. 15
NATION
In Greenfield, Iowa, the Sidey family paper celebrates its centennial. Can rural culture -- and the values it nourishes for America -- survive another century?
American
Notes FLORIDA Cruelty in the Magic Kingdom
American
Notes HURRICANES Picking Up The Pieces
American
Notes LOS ANGELES First-Class Felony
American
Notes OKLAHOMA Not a Murder, A Mistake
Bill Me Later
Once again, Washington chooses voodoo economics over responsibility
Guerrilla Drug Trials: The Underground Test Of Compound Q (American Ideas)
Desperate activists try to speed up the discovery of a cure for AIDS
Reading The Fine Print
Those sweeping arms proposals are not all they seem
The Secret in the Stacks
How the Library of Congress hid Pentagon spending
WORLD
Abroad The Debacle Deepens
Books
Back With The Wind Mon Dieu! Has Scarlett O'Hara gone Continental?
China
The Making of Deng's Successor Jiang Zemin emerges as the front runner, but the race isn't over yet
South Africa
Brother Against Brother President F.W. de Klerk and his sibling Willem offer starkly different visions of their country's future
Southeast Asia
Will It Ever End? As Viet Nam's soldiers head home, three guerrilla armies, including the Khmer Rouge, gird for war in Cambodia
Soviet Union
Letting Their People Go A wave of emigration swamps the U.S. and buoys Israel
The Philippines
From Despot to Exile In death as in life, Ferdinand Marcos stirs his homeland
World
Notes EAST-WEST Cashing In On Promises
World
Notes GREECE Verdict on The Trial
World
Notes LEBANON The Panes Of War
World
Notes SOVIET UNION Murphy's Law In Moscow
World Notes: YUGOSLAVIA
Balkans Will Be Balkans
SCIENCE
Stick Spurring conservation with a prize and a police force
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Recount of AIDS Carriers The epidemic may not be as widespread as once assumed
Diuretic (Medicine)
Dilemma Are water pills risky?
Don't (Health)
Go Back to Butter The less-cholesterol campaign is under fire, but not discredited
SOCIETY
Adoptees and birth parents move mountains to find one another
Cover Stories: The Baby Chase (Living)
No one ever said adoption was easy -- but as the market tightens and competition soars, options for parents are more intricate than ever
Nobody's Children (Living)
In the world of adoption, where healthy white infants are hotly pursued, a burgeoning group of "special-needs" kids is left behind
PRESS
Cares About Foreigners? In death and disaster, where people live counts
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Vol. 134 No. 15 OCTOBER 9, 1989
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Vol. 134 No. 15 OCTOBER 9, 1989
BUSINESS
Notes AIRLINES Round Trip To Bankruptcy
Business
Notes BEVERAGES Unhappy Hour For a Brewer
Business
Notes ENTREPRENEURS Texas' Cosmic Dealmaker
Business
Notes LOCAL ECONOMIES They Love Their Balloon
Business
Notes THE DOLLAR This Time We Really Mean It
Money
Angles Listen Up, Tax Tinkerers: Let's Be Fair
Sorry,
These Don't Fit
Special Report: Foreign Owners
I Came, I Saw, I Blundered For bosses from abroad, the U.S. is tougher than it looks
Special Report: Foreign Owners From Walkman To Showman
Sony pays $3.4 billion for a Hollywood studio as a crowning touch in its strategy of combining entertainment with electronics
EDUCATION
Overhaul Bush and the Governors agree on reform goals for the schools
Some Key Bush Proposals:
How They're Doing
LAW
Cast conservatively, the court returns for a busy new session
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Truth And Consequences (Video)
Tv News Goes Hollywood (Video)
Re-enactments are turning journalists into moviemakers
Vanessa Ascending (Show Business)
The pre-eminent actress of her time returns to Broadway
Velazquez's Binding Ethic (Art)
The genius of Spanish realism is seen in the U.S.
PEOPLE
Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, elusive leader of the pro-Iranians holding hostages in Lebanon, talks of terror and money