Time Magazine Contents Page
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THE GULF WAR: Vowing to push Saddam's forces out of Kuwait, George Bush orders the ground war to begin
Hours after the final deadline passed for Iraq to withdraw, allied forces swept into Kuwait. Finally, Saddam had the battle that he so publicly desired, but that he desperately tried to avoid in the final hours. -- What is left to liberate in Kuwait? -- The interrogation of captured soldiers offers fresh details about Baghdad's military machine. -- Yevgeni Primakov, adviser to President Gorbachev, provides the inside story of Moscow's ill-fated quest for a deal.
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NATION: New pragmatism in the statehouse
Many Governors are attacking their fiscal crises with bold -- and politically risky -- strokes. -- How to avoid death row.
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WORLD: Boris Yeltsin throws down the gauntlet
By asking Gorbachev to resign, the president of the Russian republic plunges his country's politics into turmoil.
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BUSINESS: Who really owns First American?
A probe of a Washington bank finds evidence of control by an enterprise that has had ties to drugs.
8 Letters
10 Interview
17 Grapevine
67 Environment
68 Ideas
70 Theater
71 Milestones
72 Show Business
74 Music
76 Behavior
78 Books
85 People
86 Art
88 Essay
Cover: Photograph by Charles Platiau -- Department of Defense pool