Vol. 136 No. 3
NATION
Aid That Would Work
America's Doomsday Machine
The spirit of Dr. Strangelove still survives in the 12,000 U.S. nukes aimed at the Soviet Union
American Notes CALIFORNIA
Adios, Exxon Valdez
American Notes LOS ANGELES
Getting Back On Track
American Notes MALPRACTICE
Justice for Johnathan
American Notes NORTH CAROLINA
The Price of Vanity
American Notes PRISONS
Silencing a Quayle Tale
Complaints About a Crackdown
Minorities charge that the Los Angeles police department's war on gangs has become a war on their communities
Deposed Dictators: Is There Life After Tyranny? (Grapevine)
Ed Meese, Call Home
Another Attorney General is in hot water
Getting Farmers off the Dole
The budget squeeze forces a hard look at agriculture subsidies
Helping Hand or Clenched Fist?
NATO's leaders labor to convince Moscow of their good intentions but remain wary about how much to aid a beleaguered Gorbachev
Here's Our Hat, What's Our Hurry? (Grapevine)
Loser of the Week (Grapevine)
Shadow Boxing (Grapevine)
The Golden Fleece Citation (Grapevine)
The Stand By Your Man Statuette (Grapevine)
Up, Up And Away (Grapevine)
Winner of the Week (Grapevine)
WORLD
As thousands seek asylum in the West, the communist regime may face a showdown
Middle East Human Pawns in a Sordid Game
In southern Lebanon's notorious El Khiam prison, freedom is tied to the fate of the Western hostages
Saudi Arabia A Tragic Ascension to Paradise
More than 1,400 pilgrims perish in a tunnel stampede
Soviet Union It's Lonely Up
There Gorbachev can't seem to please anyone in the Communist Party anymore
The Germanys No Fools in Furstenwalde
After economic union, flinty East Germans save their new currency for hard times to come
The Philippines A Muddle-Through Mode
A TIME correspondent who covered Cory Aquino's rise to power returns to find the President hanging on in the face of obstinate problems and persistent criticism
The War of the Widows
World Notes BRAZIL
A Growth Industry
World Notes FRANCE
Fatal Ridicule
World Notes KENYA
Quieting the Dissenters
World Notes POLAND
Hard Times at The Top
SCIENCE
Spaceships may sail to the red planet on solar breezes
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Human growth hormone may reverse some signs of aging
SOCIETY
The twentysomething generation is balking at work, marriage and baby-boomer values. Why are today's young adults so skeptical?
Windsor, California Such Splendor On the Grass (American Scene)
From the roquet to the bisque, the pass roll to the triple peel, croquet is a game whose time has come -- until you're "three-ball dead"
SPORT
Baseball pilots come and go, but the changes don't always help
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Vol. 136, No. 3 JULY 16, 1990
BUSINESS
Big Stink in The Beef Belt
Business Notes CREDIT
Ma Bell's Popular Child
Business Notes ENTERTAINMENT
Selling Drama At a Discount
Business Notes MARKETING
Press Here For Samples
Business Notes TRADE
They're Ready For a Spree
Careless On Refinery Row?
Don't Whistle While You Work
At the IRS, tattling can be hazardous to one's career
Master of The Games
Japan's leading sporting-goods maker takes aim at the U.S.
We Do It All for You
OPEC members once controlled oil production, period. Now they are raking in higher profits by taking over the industry from wellhead to gas tank
EDUCATION
An inventive teacher battles against geographic illiteracy
LAW
A manslaughter case tests the limits of religious liberty
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
A New Faith (Books)
Crash Course (Cinema)
Giving Up the Ghosts (Cinema)
Two new movies trivialize matters of life and death
Life Along the Fault Line (Music)
David Baerwald writes rock poems of metropolitan malaise
You Can Take This Grant and . . . Arts groups are spurning the NEA's anti-obscenity clause (Show Business)
SPECIAL SECTION
To get back on track, try taking the train this summer
PEOPLE
ANDREW YOUNG, running for Governor, finds success may be a liability: his achievements make some blacks and rural whites uneasy
TO OUR READERS
ESSAY
A Contrarian View