Vol. 140 No. 13
COVER
Rumpus and Economic Slump Have Got the Community's Fractious Partners . . . on Each Other's Nerves
Neither Bush nor Clinton is confronting the hard numbers, but at least each is proposing ... BABY STEPS (Cover Stories)
Perot: Dr. Feelbad and the Deficit (Cover Stories)
The Long Haul (Cover Stories)
If the recession is over, why does the pain linger? Because this is no normal recovery. Business is barely moving. And consumers have dug in their heels. But there's good news: if the U.S. gets to wor
NATION
Campaign Quiz (Grapevine)
Civil War in Germany? (Grapevine)
Countdown Mentality (U.S. Campaign)
Why Clinton's cautious team is focusing on how many days remain until the election
Domestic Disaster (The Week: Nation)
Gamesmanship To debate or not to debate? (The Week: Nation)
That depends on who asks the questions
Not Worth His Time (Grapevine)
Out of The Mouths of Babes (Grapevine)
Pander Meter (Grapevine)
Play It Again, Bill (Grapevine)
Revenge of The Angry Voter (The Week: Nation)
The latest primaries send home some more House incumbents
The Cover-Up Defense (The Week: Nation)
A country lawyer challenges the government in an Iraq-gate trial
Timing Is Everything (Grapevine)
Vox Pop (Grapevine)
WORLD
Across the old East bloc, die-hard communists, nationalists and spoiled workers are thwarting the drive toward free-market democracy
Distant Disaster (The Week World)
End of A Myth (The Week World)
Peruvian police capture the hemisphere's deadliest rebel movement
Et Cetera (The Week World)
Sushi Barred?
Europe's Common Crisis: Money (The Week World)
Under speculators' attack, the E.C. fails to hold its currencies together
Force Feeding (The Week World)
U.N. troops arrive in Somalia to make sure food aid reaches the starving
His Turn to Lose (Peru)
The capture of Abimael Guzman has decapitated the Shining Path revolution, but the world's most brutal guerrilla group vows to continue its bloody campaign
The Myth of Guzman (Peru)
The Week World (The Week World)
WAR & TERRORISM
After Bosnia, Belgrade is likely to turn its guns on predominantly Albanian Kosovo, which could ignite a broader war
SCIENCE
A battle is raging over how best to spend the settlement money from the Exxon Valdez disaster
Beyond Pluto (Space)
Astronomers spy a faint icy body at the solar system's edge -- evidence of the breeding grounds of comets
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Bad brain wiring may underlie obsessive-compulsive disorder
The Glue of Life (Medicine)
By manipulating the adhesiveness of cells, scientists hope to stop the spread of cancer, cure arthritis and develop a new class of therapies
SOCIETY
The ground is stretching in Missouri: a big quake is just a matter of time
Doctors' Cure (The Week: Society)
A new health-care proposal from an influential physicians' group
Et Cetera (The Week: Society)
Born to Smoke
Et Cetera (The Week: Society)
No Deal
Et Cetera (The Week: Society)
Too Hasty on Hastings
No Silver Lining (The Week: Society)
Swiss greenhouses predict global warming may smother plants
Not-So-Little Leaguers Forfeit a Championship (The Week: Society)
A Filipino dream team becomes a nightmare for baseball fans
Portrait of a Space Rock (The Week: Society)
Price Of Neglect (The Week: Society)
A chicken king goes to prison for the death of two dozen workers
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Iraq: It Could Be Even Worse
The Political Interest
Bush as Mr. Scrooge
Time Magazine Contents Page (Contents)
September 28, 1992 Vol. 140 No. 13
Time Magazine Masthead (Masthead)
September 28, 1992 Vol. 140 No. 13
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Game Shows Get Gamier (Reviews Television)
Matisse The Color of Genius (Art)
A sublime retrospective illuminates the mastery of a paladin of modernism
Return to A Lost World (Reviews Cinema)
Short Takes (Reviews)
PEOPLE
Author, controversialist and now a rave-winning movie actor, Gore Vidal takes a bleak look at his country