Vol. 135 No. 26
NATION
American Notes ECOLOGY
U-Turn on Ozone
American Notes ILLINOIS
A Brutal Ransom Game
American Notes OHIO
Disaster Along The Wegee
American Notes SURGERY
Nose Jobs and The Navy
An Interview with Mandela
Another Winner of the Week (Grapevine)
Bye-Bye, Barry
Washington's embattled mayor calls it quits
Does
De Klerk Deserve a Break? No, but Mandela could strengthen his campaign to end apartheid by endorsing a gradual easing of sanctions
Grapevine (Grapevine)
Grapevine (Grapevine)
Grapevine (Grapevine)
Grapevine (Grapevine)
Grapevine (Grapevine)
Hiding in The Flag
Washington has more important things to do than posture about Old Glory
The Baby-It's-Cold-Outside Sympathy Card (Grapevine)
The Barefoot-and-Pregnant Sensitivity Palm (Grapevine)
The Burden of Being a Superstar
Leaving a host of problems at home, Nelson Mandela is coming to the U.S. in search of money and renewed pressure on South Africa
The Great Cartoon Cash-In (Grapevine)
The Presidency
His Failure Was Political
The Rap Against a Rap Group
Anti-obscenity campaigners are getting as nasty as they wanna be against raunchy music, but will juries go along?
Who's In Charge Here?
A supertanker fire off Texas shows how the U.S. remains ill-prepared for fighting oil spills
Winner of the Week (Grapevine)
WORLD
The country's French-English identity -- and possibly its unity -- is at stake as a deadline looms for the Meech Lake accord
Coming: Bolshoi Panty Hose
Islam Ballots for Allah
An unexpected fundamentalist triumph in Algeria sends a shiver through the Arab world and beyond. Is the fear justified?
Middle East Call Us -- We Won't Call
You As a right-wing government takes power in Jerusalem, the U.S. and Israel trade phone numbers -- and the sharpest gibes yet
Soviet Union And the Breadwinner Is . . . . . . Mikhail Gorbachev, who reclaims the initiative by acknowledging that half a loaf is better than none
The Balkans Wild in the Streets
In Romania and Bulgaria, the game has changed but the players are still former Communists, leaving some spectators unhappy
The Man Who Can't Say Yes
World Notes ITALY
Showdown in Doge City
World Notes PERU
On Second Thought . . .
World Notes SRI LANKA
Playing Cops And Killers
World Notes TERRORISM
Out of the Woodwork
SCIENCE
Owl vs Man (Environment)
In the Northwest's battle over logging, jobs are at stake, but so are irreplaceable ancient forests
Terrorist in A White Collar (Environment)
SOCIETY
A bellwether city battles a hardening color line
Medical Progress -- Live! On CNN! (Ethics)
An experimental AIDS treatment tests the judgment of journalists
PRESS
After a high-stakes launch, E.W. encounters "creative differences"
RELIGION
The Southern Baptists choose a Fundamentalist future
To Hell with Choice
A Cardinal turns excommunication into a political weapon
SPORT
For Nolan Ryan, 43, it's no hits, no runs -- and no peers
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
A physicist's attack riles artificial-intelligence researchers
Time Magazine Contents Page (Contents)
Vol. 135, No. 26 JUNE 25, 1990
Time Magazine Masthead (Masthead)
Vol. 135, No. 26 JUNE 25, 1990
BUSINESS
From farm to freezer, ConAgra makes its mark
Business Notes AIRLINES
Haute Cuisine At Low Altitude
Business Notes AUTOS
Top Down, Hopes Up
Business Notes COMMUNICATIONS
A Page from The Comics
Business Notes
DEBT Donald the Deadbeat
Business Notes SECURITIES /
Stock Around The Clock
Good Ole Bad Boy
A Texas S&L tycoon is indicted, but how many others will the U.S. nab?
How Green Is My Label
One Big Mac, Hold the Box!
McDonald's faces a children's crusade against polystyrene
Ring 'Em Up, Ship 'Em Out
U.S. companies, becalmed at home, register record sales abroad
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Focal Points (Books)
In Search of Eddie Murphy (Cinema)
The gifts that made him a star have disappeared into self-parody
Iron Lady (Books)
Is A Populist Revolt at Hand? (Books)
By PRISCILLA PAINTON
Mud Pie Eaters (Books)
Why Spy? (Books)
SPECIAL SECTION
A TIME correspondent's guide to Eastern Europe: Don't expect nouvelle cuisine
PEOPLE
Toward Unity Sensitive to his country's history, Chancellor HELMUT KOHL warns against isolating Germans and argues that unification is not only urgent but will make the '90s the decade of Europe