Vol. 146 No.

COVER

POWELL ON POWELL (Cover Story)

MY AMERICAN JOURNEY (Cover Story)
RISING FROM HARLEM TO THE HIGHEST COUNCILS OF POWER, COLIN POWELL LOOKS TO HIS--AND THE COUNTRY'S--FUTURE

NATION

BETRAYED BY HIS KISSES (The Senate)
PACKWOOD'S FINAL HOURS: AN INSIDE LOOK AT HOW THE MOUNTING ANGER OF HIS COLLEAGUES ENDED HIS 27-YEAR CAREER

SMALL ANTS, TALL TALES (Congress)
THE REPUBLICANS ARE WIELDING DUBIOUS PERSONAL ANECDOTES IN THEIR WAR AGAINST FEDERAL REGULATIONS

LANES PAVED WITH GOLD (Cities)
LEFT BEHIND BY LAS VEGAS, RENO BOWLS ITS WAY TO A TOURIST RESURGENCE

TROUBLE IN PARADISE (Weapons)
FRANCE'S NUCLEAR TEST CAUSES TAHITIAN RIOTS AND BRINGS GLOBAL CONDEMNATION

THE DIARY: WHAT DID GRAMM SAY? (The Senate)

DEAD-SERIOUS PRANK: (Weapons)
A GREENPEACE OPERATION

AND THE SUCCESSOR IS... (The Senate)

WORLD

INSIDE SADDAM'S BRUTAL REGIME (Iraq)
EXCLUSIVE: A DEFECTOR BREAKS HIS SILENCE

WAR & TERRORISM

MORE TALKING, MORE BOMBING (The Balkans)
DESPITE DIPLOMATIC PROGRESS, THE SERBS REMAIN DEFIANT, AND THE ALLIES DEBATE EXPANDING THE AIR ATTACKS

SCIENCE

WHEN LIFE NEARLY DIED
RESEARCHERS LINK EARTH'S GREATEST MASS EXTINCTION TO SIBERIAN VOLCANOES THAT ERUPTED FOR A MILLION YEARS

HEALTH & MEDICINE

DOUBLE-DUTY DRUGS (Medicine)
APPROVED MEDICATIONS ARE BEING WIDELY PRESCRIBED FOR UNAPPROVED USES

SOCIETY

SPIRIT OF SISTERHOOD (Women's Rights)
DESPITE THE HOSTS' SURLINESS, DELEGATES PRAISE THE U.N. WOMEN'S CONFERENCE

BURY MY HEART IN COMMITTEE
CONGRESS'S STINGINESS AND A POWERFUL SENATOR'S PHILOSOPHY MAY MEAN TRAGEDY FOR NATIVE AMERICANS

SPORT

A VERY HAPPY RETURN
AFTER TWO YEARS OF RECOVERY, TENNIS STAR MONICA SELES MAKES A RESOUNDING COMEBACK AT THE U.S. OPEN

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THE WEEK
SEPTEMBER 3-9

MILESTONES

WINNERS & LOSERS

BUSINESS

NO PASSAGE TO INDIA
AMERICAN FIRMS FACE AN ANTIFOREIGN BACKLASH IN THE WORLD'S LARGEST DEMOCRACY

LAW

IS THE END NIGH? (Justice)
ALL SIDES TAKE LUMPS AS THE O.J. CASE WENDS ITS WAY TOWARD THE JURY

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

QUEL DRAG! (The Arts & Media / CINEMA)
SPANGLES AND SOAPSUDS IN THE CROSS-DRESSING TO WONG FOO

DREAM GIRLS (The Arts & Media / SHOW BUSINESS)
AT 75, THE MISS AMERICA PAGEANT SELLS AN IMAGE OF YOUNG WOMANHOOD THAT IS RETRO AND MODERN, HOPELESSLY UNCOOL--AND FOR ALL THAT, WE LOVE IT

AN ANGUISHED RAP OPERA (The Arts & Media / CINEMA)
SPIKE LEE'S CLOCKERS GRIMLY ASSESSES LIFE, DRUGS AND DESPAIR

ICH BIN EIN MAGAZINE EDITOR (The Arts & Media / PRESS)
J.F.K. JR.'S NEW POLITICAL MAGAZINE IS FINALLY HERE. CAN IT STAY?

CAMPING UNDER GLASS (The Arts & Media / ART)
THE GHOST OF FLORINE STETTHEIMER, REMOTE AND GLITTERING, EVOKES A PERIOD BETWEEN THE WARS IN A NEW SHOW AT THE WHITNEY

COLD WAR CONFIDENTIAL (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)
ANATOLY DOBRYNIN, THE U.S.S.R.'S MAN IN WASHINGTON FOR A QUARTER-CENTURY, SPILLS SOME COLD-WAR SECRETS IN HIS MEMOIRS

SAX CHAMP (The Arts & Media / MUSIC)
REDISCOVERING THE WORK OF JAZZ PIONEER JOHN COLTRANE

OLD SMOOTHY (The Arts & Media / MUSIC)
D'ANGELO BRINGS THE POP-SOUL SOUNDS OF THE '70S UP TO DATE

AND IN THIS CORNER ... (The Arts & Media / PRESS)

THE ART OF THE DEALER (The Arts & Media / PUBLISHING)
AN INDICTED GALLERY OWNER'S NOVEL, IT SEEMS, IS ALL TOO REALISTIC

PEOPLE

"I'VE GOT TO MAKE SOME CHOICES" (Interview)