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COVER: In Rumania, an unfinished revolution. In Panama, a diplomatic standoff

American troops and Rumanian tanks share a mission to depose two brutal dictators, but both leave behind the painful task of rebuilding a nation from the wreckage. -- Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena are summarily executed, and a self-appointed National Salvation Front takes charge of the country. But the shape of the new order is far from clear. -- In Timisoara, cradle of the revolution, people ricochet between agony and elation, fear and hope. -- Panama's strongman has fallen, but Manuel Noriega takes refuge in the papal embassy, sending Washington and the Vatican into diplomatic deadlock. -- As a military operation, the U.S. invasion gets a glowing assessment from the brass and the experts.

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NATION: Seven Senators face a tough grilling

Seamy deals have contributed to a New Year's backlog of congressional ethics investigations. -- The medfly is bugging Californians again.

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SPORT: The team of the decade

They have a rookie coach, a modest running game and an injury-plagued squad. So how come the 49ers are favored to win the first back-to-back Super Bowls since 1979? Ask Joe Montana.

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LAW: How private are your cordless phone calls?

A Dixon, Iowa, man asks the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his eavesdropping case and extend to cordless units the same legal safeguards protecting standard- wire phones.

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BUSINESS: Drug prices cause a rash of discomfort

Demands for lower-cost medications put pressure on the pharmaceutical industry. -- The cold snap causes crop losses and heating-oil price hikes.

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PROFILE: Czech man of conscience Vaclav Havel

A reviled patrician, suppressed playwright and jailed dissident, the symbol of his nation's revolution takes over as Czechoslovakia's President.

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ART: A 19th century showman's masterpieces

At Washington's National Gallery, the first full-dress exhibition in 25 years of Frederic Edwin Church's huge landscapes offers nature as sublime spectacle.

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CINEMA: A holiday Holocaust from Hollywood

Three new movies consider the Nazi extermination of European Jewry. Their ambitions are honorable, but can they escape the taint of "holokitsch"?

13 Letters

23 Critics' Voices

61 Press

65 People

68 Education

68 Milestones

69 Theater

70 Health

72 Books

75 Show Business

78 Essay

Cover: Photograph by Vladimir Sichov -- SIPA Press