Vol. 137 No. 23
NATION
A Widow Dies In China (Grapevine)
American Notes BAILOUTS
$950 Million To Go
American Notes BASEBALL
It Takes One To Play One
American Notes DEFENSE
Turning Off The Radars
American Notes ENVIRONMENT
Mothers of Prevention
American Notes
LAW ENFORCEMENT Wanted: Ethnic G-Persons
Benefit Beat (Grapevine)
Lessons of Desert Storm Phantom Army
For the most part the National Guard fought well in the gulf. But some outfits, plagued by no-shows and poor training, never got to the front.
Public Service: The Golden Rocking Chair
Thanks to fat pensions, many retired officials make more than those still on the job
Right Fish, Wrong State (Grapevine)
The Hazards of A Messy Desk (Grapevine)
The Little Unit That Couldn't
The Urban Crisis: Everybody's Fall Guy
As Los Angeles' neighbors sink under smog, congestion, crime and uncurbed development, they have made the city a whipping boy for all their woes
Who Says We Have To Be Consistent? (Grapevine)
WORLD
Growls in The Garden
Coping with The Famine
Diplomacy: Getting China Wrong
In keeping with tradition, the White House and Congress both overestimate their influence on Beijing
Ethiopia: Rebels Take Charge
The guerrillas seize the capital and agree to help form a peace government, but a unified and democratic Ethiopia remains a quixotic dream
Middle East: The Ban That Isn't
Bush's arms plan omits a few items (planes, tanks . . .)
Military Pacts: Nato Goes on a Diet
Faced with a diminished Soviet threat, the alliance tries to slim down, improve its reflexes -- and reduce U.S. dominance
Refugees Transplanted in Time
As more Ethiopian Jews flood into Israel, those who arrived earlier have learned to like suburbia. But all that noise!
Soviet Union Kissing Hands, Shaking Babies
Russia's first presidential election is at hand, but the candidates haven't got the art of campaigning quite right
World Notes
INDIA In Search of Stability
World Notes
IRAN Love for Sale
World Notes
MEXICO Life in the Posh Lane
World Notes
NORTH KOREA Coming In from The Cold
SCIENCE
NASA's proposed house in the sky will cost too much -- and do too little
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Did Millie or faulty faucets really lead the President and First Lady to develop the same disease? Nonsense. But autoimmune disorders can be strange.
Take A Viking To Lunch (Food)
The hottest thing in the chic kitchen is a $6,000 stove
Watching Children Starve to Death (Health)
An exclusive look at the suffering inside Iraq's devastated hospitals
SOCIETY
Nintendo's powerful new game system could get zapped
Shooting Leopards in a Barrel (Ethics)
In a perversion of sport, canned hunts offer helpless exotic animals for slaughter in exchange for big bucks
Whiz! Zoom! Crash! Ouch! (Living)
A speedy sport takes a brisk and painful toll
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Vol. 137 No. 23 JUNE 10, 1991
Time Magazine Masthead (Masthead)
Vol. 137 No. 23 JUNE 10, 1991
BUSINESS
AWARDS Did GM Add to Its Ads?
Business Notes
BANKING The Biggest Bailout
Business Notes
DEPARTMENT STORES Macy's Loses Its Shirt
Business Notes
TRANSPORTATION The Shrinking Of Texas
Business Notes
TROUBLE "Too Damn Comfortable!"
Creativity: Whose Bright Idea?
Companies are cracking down on pirates who steal designs, movies and computer programs. The battle is getting hotter -- and more important.
Retailing Shelter from the Recession
As summer starts, Home Depot leads a fix-up boom by taking the angst out of buying do-it-yourself wares
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Critics' Voices (Critics' Voices)
Hot Rock on a Fresh Roll (Music)
That good old stuff is coming back, displacing dance discs and rap, but it's not quite the same. New attitudes and rhythms are shaking and breaking.
Men Who Work Underground (Books)
More Shots in Dealey Plaza (Cinema)
Oliver Stone returns to the '60s once again with a strange, widely disputed take on the Kennedy assassination
Pulp From The Woodpile (Books)
Smiles (And Yuks) Of a Summer Night (Cinema)
Visual Jazz from a Sharp Eye (Art)
A retrospective in Harlem illuminates the keen human observations of collagist Romare Bearden
SPECIAL SECTION
Floating casinos offer fun, nostalgia and America's trendiest new way to lure tourists, but they may be a bad bet for communities trying to cash in
PEOPLE
ALLEN WEINSTEIN helps guide emerging nations toward pluralism. Now he is examining Bulgaria's role in the attempted assassination of the Pope.